Lord Des Browne on Ban superintelligence development until…

Lord Des Browne

Former UK Secretary of State for Defence; member of the House of Lords.

The common-sense response to this risk is to prevent the development of superintelligence outright, rather than to expect industry to stop gambling with humanity's future.

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Lord Des Browne, “The Case for Banning Superintelligent AI, Before It's Too Late,” Royal United Services Institute, June 15, 2026.

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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

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Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed

It is time for the Government to treat the development of superintelligence as the unprecedented security threat that it is.

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AI poses an existential threat to humanity

If superintelligence were developed tomorrow, we would have no means of controlling it.

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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

The UK therefore should begin by prohibiting the development of superintelligence on British soil and then work to build a coalition of states agreeing to prohibit it globally.

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