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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Burnham Urged To Back Kill Switch for Superintelligent AI After Anthropic Insider Warns of Human Extinction

More than 70 MPs and peers are urging Andy Burnham to support restrictions on superintelligent AI (Credit: House of Commons/Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0)

More than 70 MPs and peers are urging Prime Minister Andy Burnham to support restrictions on the development of artificial superintelligence after an Anthropic researcher estimated there was a greater than 10% chance that future AI could kill all humans within the next decade.

The campaign is calling for stronger safeguards, including an international framework that could prevent superintelligent AI from being developed if humans cannot reliably control it.

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