Steven Adler on Ban superintelligence development until…

Steven Adler

AI safety researcher; Lawfare writer

We need to make this a goal state. If the countries come together and have an international summit on how to safely ban superintelligence, but we fail at the diplomacy, that would be unfortunate, but at least we would have tried.

AI Verified (Jan 26, 2026)

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Steven Adler, testimony to the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, January 26, 2026.

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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

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Nations should establish binding international rules for AI safety and governance

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AI Verified Canadian House ETHI Evidence No.24, p.23, records this testimony by Steven Adler verbatim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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