At a UK parliamentary hearing, representatives from OpenAI and Anthropic said voluntary safety pledges are insufficient and called for statutory, binding AI regulation, including mandatory incident reporting. Google DeepMind and Meta did not endorse new legislation, instead pointing to existing standards and regulators as sufficient.
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· 2026-10-13
British lawmakers are moving to restrict advanced AI development after safety warnings from within the industry. Labour MP Alex Sobel introduced a bill to ban development and deployment of artificial superintelligence and give the government oversight powers across the AI supply chain, including chips, while Darren Jones sent an open letter urging the UN, OECD and the prime minister to intervene against unsafe superintelligence research.
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· 2026-09-09