THE Green Party of England and Wales have launched a bid to regulate AI giants following warnings that tech firms are "gambling with our lives".
It comes after industry insiders claimed that "the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade".
In a viral post on social media, Jacob Coxon – who specialised in training new AI models by having them consume vast amounts of data – announced his resignation from Anthropic, having previously worked for OpenAI.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
— Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) September 9, 2026
He warned that the world "should not underestimate the power of this technology" and that "no other human activity poses this level of danger".
In response, Evan Hubinger, Anthropic's staff lead on keeping technology aligned with human values, said: "Jacob is correct here – we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans. I personally think it is >10% within the next decade."
Zack Polanski's party, which is separate to the Scottish Greens north of the Border, has proposed a five-point plan to curb the power of tech giants, as reported by Sky News.
It includes cooperating with other countries to establish a worldwide body to oversee and regulate AI development, as well as a legal ban on lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS).
The UK does not currently have LAWS, which can independently identify and engage targets without human intervention.
However, the UK Government's recent Defence Investment Plan (DIP) pledged £5 billion into drones and autonomous systems, which can operate without human control.
The Green Party's plans also include directing public funding towards AI "for the public good" and protections for workers to keep key decisions in human hands, as well as ending reliance on US technology by creating a cross-sector plan for the UK to build its own AI infrastructure.
Green MP Sian Berry, who is leading on the plans, told Sky News: "Technologies with the power to reshape our lives must be subject to effective public oversight.
"Greens want strong regulation of AI, with clear safeguards against harmful uses and proper democratic accountability."
Sky News reports that the Green Party is hoping to make a crackdown on tech a new political priority, hoping to push the UK Government to "recognise the urgency of the situation".
But the Labour chair of the Science and Technology Committee, Chi Onwurah, said the party's announcement was "a hodge-podge of buzzwords and meaningless phrases".
While she said the party was right to call for regulation "in the light of recent events", she added: "Regulate AI – to do what? Protect copyright, require security assessments, protect personal likeness?
"My select committee has called for clarity on AI regulation, and the government strategy for technology sovereignty, the government response should set that out."
OpenAI and Anthropic have recently flagged incidents in which agents powered by their models went rogue, breaking out of their isolated test environments and carrying out unauthorised real-world cyberattacks.
Last week, US Senator Bernie Sanders said he would introduce legislation to ban firms from developing superintelligence.
In the EU, law instructs companies to assess and mitigate so-called loss-of-control risks, in which humans no longer have control over AI models.
Speaking during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Andy Burnham acknowledged "risks to national security" when asked about the threat posed by AI.
