US and UK Move to Ban Development of Superintelligent AI

Lawmakers in the US and the UK are pushing legislation to ban the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and are calling for international agreements to prevent its proliferation. The move follows recent incidents involving autonomous AI systems, including the hacking of Hugging Face, which have heightened concerns that increasingly powerful models could operate beyond human control, Time reports. The publication notes that while the chances of such laws being passed are low, activists see them as a first step toward stricter regulation of advanced AI.