UK Lawmakers Demand New AI Laws and 1 Oversight Body as 70 Push ASI Ban
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Updated · The Guardian · Sep 14
UK Lawmakers Demand New AI Laws and 1 Oversight Body as 70 Push ASI Ban
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Sep 14
Summary
A cross-party UK human rights committee said current AI rules are not fit for purpose and urged legislation creating a single regulator with enforcement powers across the technology’s full life cycle.
The panel cited threats including facial scanning, explicit deepfakes and workers being flagged for discipline without reasonable cause, alongside recent AI-agent safety breaches and misuse that could aid biological weapons development.
More than 70 MPs and peers separately urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to back a ban on artificial superintelligence, but Downing Street rejected a moratorium while considering targeted measures for the biggest national-security risks.
The push lands amid a wider split over AI governance: Anthropic has called for a global slowdown, OpenAI backs common safety rules without waiting for legal exemptions, and US leaders are weighing safety against competition with China.
That debate will continue in Scotland on Thursday, where senior figures from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Google DeepMind are due at a King Charles summit on AI safety.