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

The campaign is demanding stricter controls on frontier systems, citing fears superintelligent AI could'compromise national and global security'. The campaign is demanding stricter controls on frontier systems, citing fears superintelligent AI could'compromise national and global security'. 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". The push for tougher regulation is being coordinated by a nonprofit organisation called Control AI whose backers include the co-founder of Skype, Jaan Tallinn.