Should AI be formally recognized as a national and global security threat? In London, politicians increasingly think so

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A frog does not know it is being boiled until it is too late. Lawmakers in London feel the same about artificial general intelligence—the next chapter of the 21^st century technology revolution, which could be as little as three years away.

A campaign for government recognition that such nonhuman “superintelligence” should be formally considered a threat to national and global security is backed by more than 125 U.K. lawmakers. The philosopher, historian, and author of mega-selling books Yuval Noah Harari has given the campaign his personal endorsement.