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Petition · past parliament · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Seek a global moratorium on development of AI technology due to extinction risk

Closed 145 signatures

What the petition asks

We welcome the recent recognition of existential risk from Artificial Intelligence by the Prime Minister. Further to this, we request that the Government seeks a global moratorium on further development of the technology until AI Safety/Alignment research catches up.
Many believe that 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. Some experts have said 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.

Timeline

28 Jun 2023 Petition opened for signatures
28 Dec 2023 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 145
Status Closed
Department Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Opened 28 Jun 2023
Closed 28 Dec 2023

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.