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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Robert Booth UK technology editor

Scores of UK parliamentarians join call to regulate most powerful AI systems

Liquid-cooled servers at the Global Switch Docklands data centre campus in London.
The campaign is demanding stricter controls on frontier systems, citing fears superintelligent AI could ‘compromise national and global security’. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

More than 100 UK parliamentarians are calling on the government to introduce binding regulations on the most powerful AI systems as concern grows that ministers are moving too slowly to create safeguards in the face of lobbying from the technology industry.

A former AI minister and defence secretary are part of a cross-party group of Westminster MPs, peers and elected members of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish legislatures demanding stricter controls on frontier systems, citing fears superintelligent AI “would compromise national and global security”.

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