Invite impartial experts to brief parliament on existential risk from AI

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

We welcome the recent recognition of existential risk from Artificial Intelligence by the Prime Minister. We request that further to this, he meets with impartial experts (with no financial ties to AI corporations) on AI existential risk, and invites them to brief parliament on the danger of AGI.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is on the horizon. All that may be needed for it to happen is more compute and data (money) being thrown at it. The problem is that powerful AI systems are already uncontrollable (and only not a significant danger because they are relatively weak). Systems much more intelligent than humans may be built soon, and may be inherently uncontrollable. We need to pause development of these systems globally until there is a consensus on how to align them to humanity

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.

Decisions about who to be briefed by on particular subjects are a matter for individual parliamentarians, not the Government or Parliament.

We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Introduce statutory regulation of Artificial Intelligence: Introduce statutory regulation of Artificial Intelligence

Timeline

27 May 2023	Petition opened for signatures
2 Jun 2023	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18

Status Rejected

Rejected 2 Jun 2023

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