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Jones is the latest lawmaker scrambling to find ways to protect the British public from AI threats to safety
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The legislation would also give the government powers to monitor and control the development of the technology at different points in the supply chain, including at chip level.
Key facts
- We are not alone in this effort,” said Sobel while introducing the bill, pointing to the US government’s temporary export ban on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models in June
- Whether “marketing hype” or signposting of a genuine extinction threat, “governments must step in,” Labour MP Darren Jones wrote in an open letter also addressed to the UK prime minister
- MPs from across political parties put their names on the bill, including Labour MP Jess Asato, who is suing Elon Musk’s xAI after its Grok chatbot was allegedly used to generate fake sexualized
- Sobel has previously tried in vain to introduce a “kill switch” into the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, which would allow the government to pull the plug on any data center hosting an AI agent
Summary
A leading British politician has urged the United Nations to intervene in “the unsafe development of super intelligence” after an Anthropic team leader posted: “We do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” Whether “marketing hype” or signposting of a genuine extinction threat, “governments must step in,” Labour MP Darren Jones wrote in an open letter also addressed to the UK prime minister and international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Jones is the latest lawmaker scrambling to find ways to protect the British public from AI threats to safety. “We are not alone in this effort,” said Sobel while introducing the bill, pointing to the US government’s temporary export ban on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models in June. MPs from across political parties put their names on the bill, including Labour MP Jess Asato, who is suing Elon Musk’s xAI after its Grok chatbot was allegedly used to generate fake sexualized images of her.