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Business

Sep 9, 2026 3:07 PM

UK Lawmakers Are Freaking Out Over AI’s Summer of Chaos

As AI agents go rogue and fears of superintelli

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Isabella Ward

Business

Sep 9, 2026 3:07 PM

UK Lawmakers Are Freaking Out Over AI’s Summer of Chaos

As AI agents go rogue and fears of superintelligence grow, politicians are raising the alarm over its potential harm to human existence.

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A leading British

politician has urged the United Nations to intervene in “the unsafe development of super intelligence” after an

Anthropic

team leader posted: “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!”

Whether “marketing hype” or signposting of a genuine extinction threat, “governments must step in,” Labour MP Darren Jones wrote in an open letter also addressed to the UK prime minister and international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Jones is the latest lawmaker scrambling to find ways to protect the British public from AI threats to safety. Just one day earlier, Labour MP Alex Sobel had introduced a parliamentary bill proposing to ban the “development, deployment, and operation of artificial superintelligence”—systems which can fully replace and outmatch humans at any task. The legislation would also give the government powers to monitor and control the development of the technology at different points in the supply chain, including at chip level.

“We are not alone in this effort,” said Sobel while introducing the bill, pointing to the US government’s

temporary export ban

on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models in June. "If the Trump Administration, who are perceived as historically against AI regulation, can contemplate drawing a line on models that are too powerful and dangerous, it would be strange for us not to ask what our response should be," he argued.

MPs from across political parties put their names on the bill, including Labour MP Jess Asato, who is suing

Elon Musk’s xAI after its Grok chatbot

was allegedly used to generate

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