Former Northern Ireland First Minister Baroness Foster: Modern AIs aren't built piece by piece, they're grown. Even AI developers don't understand them.

"We simply do not know what a world with smarter-than-human AI would look like, much less how to manage or grow it safely."

Lord Goldsmith: We can't just dismiss the hundreds of experts and tech leaders who've warned that AI poses a risk of extinction.

"They recognise that superintelligent AI is far more powerful than any of us can understand, that it has the capacity to overwhelm us"

Baroness Ritchie: Even AI CEOs have stated AI poses an extinction risk.

"This is sobering and opens the question of what has been done by these companies to address these risks."

From the House of Lords debate on AI: Lord Fairfax urges the UK government to acknowledge the extinction threat superintelligence poses to humanity, prevent its development, and champion an international prohibition on development of the technology!

From the Lords debate on AI: Baroness Cass says we might have less than 5 years to act.

Citing Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark's anxiety about frontier AI development, Cass says "if the AI executives are worried, then I'm worried and we all should be worried."

Former Northern Ireland First Minister Baroness Foster says it would be reckless to ignore the risk posed by superintelligent AI.

Countless experts and 100+ UK politicians have acknowledged the risk of extinction posed by AI, which comes from superintelligence.

Lord Goldsmith calls for the UK government to support a prohibition on the development of superintelligence and recognise the risk of extinction that advanced AI poses to humanity.

NEW: In the House of Lords AI debate today, Lord Fairfax says that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should not be "a" global priority, it should be "the" global priority, because of the seriousness of the situation.

"How concerned are you about the development of superintelligent AI, say on a scale of one to 10?"

"11."

Just before Christmas, we sent a copy of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies to every MP and peer.

Sir Desmond Swayne MP says he'll be reading it!

Elon Musk predicts AGI will be developed this year and says "AI will exceed the intelligence of all humans combined" by 2030.

Musk has often warned that the development of artificial superintelligence could lead to human extinction.

Ben Lake MP asks whether ministers should have last-resort powers to direct the shutdown of data centres or AI systems in a security emergency.

Lake says that given the evolving nature of cyberthreats, this could be one way to future-proof the cybersecurity bill.

Professor Stuart Russell: "Dario Amodei says a 25% chance of extinction, Elon Musk has a 30% chance ...  So what are they doing? They are playing Russian roulette with  every human being on Earth, without our permission."

Developing superintelligence is a dangerous gamble.

AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton says he's more worried about AI than he was 2 years ago when he quit Google and began warning about the extinction risk from superintelligent AI.

"I'm probably more worried. It's progressed even faster than I thought."

Senator Bernie Sanders says the possibility of superintelligence replacing humans in controlling the planet is not science fiction.

Victoria Collins MP asks what the UK government is doing to clamp down on AI threats, including the threat posed by superintelligence.

Collins says the UK could take the lead and build an AI safety agency.

Elon Musk says he has nightmares about AI and would slow it down if he could.