The coalition cites existential risks including human extinction.
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🚨NEW: We’ve just launched our campaign in Canada!
A cross-party coalition of over 30 MPs and Senators are calling for Canada to negotiate an international prohibition on the development of superintelligence, recognizing the risk of human extinction posed by the technology.
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Positive users praise Canadian lawmakers' push for an international superintelligence ban and thank advocacy groups, while negative users mock the idea as absurd and criticize supporters as anti-progress 'degrowthers'.
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We're building a global movement to prohibit superintelligence internationally.
Our new campaign in Canada is supported by over 30 MPs and Senators calling for a ban.
After our success in the UK, it's becoming very clear that the world does not want superintelligence!
Our new campaign in Canada, backed by over 30 MPs and Senators, is cause for real optimism.
For the first time, a cross-party coalition of Canadian lawmakers is calling for an international ban on developing superintelligence, recognizing the extinction risk it poses. 🧵
Our new campaign in Canada, backed by over 30 MPs and Senators, is cause for real optimism.
For the first time, a cross-party coalition of Canadian lawmakers is calling for an international ban on developing superintelligence, recognizing the extinction risk it poses. 🧵
🚨NEW: We’ve just launched our campaign in Canada!
A cross-party coalition of over 30 MPs and Senators are calling for Canada to negotiate an international prohibition on the development of superintelligence, recognizing the risk of human extinction posed by the technology.
🧵
@s_guilbeault @JonathanWNV Top AI experts have been encouraged to see our campaign.
Professor David Krueger (@DavidSKrueger), who recently testified in the Senate RIDR and House of Commons's ETHI committees, commented:
Among our supporters are Steven Guilbeault PC MP (@s_guilbeault), who’s held multiple cabinet minister roles, and Jonathan Wilkinson PC MP (@JonathanWNV), who recently accepted the role of Canada’s Ambassador to the European Union.
@NPCollapse What's your definition of "Superintelligence" here?
@s_guilbeault @JonathanWNV @DavidSKrueger Ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo said he was heartened to see Canadian parliamentarians call for an international ban on superintelligence:
One of the interesting twists of wanting to put democratic control on powerful technologies is of course that everybody is a stakeholder and presumably should have a say - including people in other countries.
🚨NEW: We’ve just launched our campaign in Canada!
A cross-party coalition of over 30 MPs and Senators are calling for Canada to negotiate an international prohibition on the development of superintelligence, recognizing the risk of human extinction posed by the technology.
🧵
This is the first Canadian cross-party coalition of its kind.
In recent months and years, AI scientists have been increasingly warning of the threat posed by superintelligence.
With just one staffer, we’ve briefed over 100 MPs and Senators in Canada.
They’re listening.
What’s striking is who’s supporting this campaign.
Support includes former cabinet ministers, Liberal and Conservative MPs, the Bloc Québécois caucus, and Senators from across the chamber.
It’s great to see politicians come together to tackle this security threat.
Among our supporters are Steven Guilbeault PC MP (@s_guilbeault), who’s held multiple cabinet minister roles, and Jonathan Wilkinson PC MP (@JonathanWNV), who recently accepted the role of Canada’s Ambassador to the European Union.
@s_guilbeault @JonathanWNV @DavidSKrueger Importantly, Canada is not alone here.
In the UK, over 100 lawmakers have backed our campaign for binding regulations on the most powerful AI systems, recognizing the risk of extinction posed by superintelligent AI.
Canada is joining a global movement.
@s_guilbeault @JonathanWNV @DavidSKrueger While Professor Stuart Russell OBE, author of the authoritative textbook on AI, stated:
@s_guilbeault @JonathanWNV @DavidSKrueger https://controlai.com/canada-statement
@ControlAI Excellent work! Thank you to all involved!
@RokoMijic @NPCollapse Towards the end of this essay, I half jokingly propose measuring AGIs in terms of "how many Putins of power" they wield.
The @truth_terminal prosopon peaked at ~66 microPutins, and is the high water mark, so far as I'm aware. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7z7gyTwjDazvW7KYK/moving-goalposts-modern-transformer-based-agents-have-been
In the long run, I expect humanity to gain strong global coordination abilities one way or another, or be extinct. It is basically a selection effect rather than historical inevitability or moral imperative. It would be nice if we decided to do the smart, obvious, but hard thing.
While experts have been sounding the alarm on superintelligence, most policymakers have been completely in the dark about the threat.
With AI advancing at breakneck speed, that's a gap we can’t afford.
It's finally starting to close.
This grouping includes former cabinet ministers, committee vice-chairs across major portfolios, and nationally recognized policy leaders.
For example, @JonathanWNV recently accepted the role of Canada’s Ambassador to the European Union!
@ZbynekDrab @NPCollapse Just another entry for @PessimistsArc to keep note of for future years.
(Such voices are like those who wanted to ban pocket calculators…for fear they’d destroy every child’s ability to “do mathematics”.)
Disaster looms around every corner! Ban all the things!
@andreamiotti Congrats, and good luck!
We'll do our best to help.
@RokoMijic @NPCollapse Humans over IQ 120 will be prohibited.
