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Lord Des Browne

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

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

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

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AI Verified Browne calls development of superintelligence an unprecedented security threat and advocates prohibiting it globally, directly supporting a global-slowdown capability. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Recorded answer for is correct: Browne advocates prohibiting superintelligence domestically and through a global coalition. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified RUSI guest commentary, 15 Jun 2026, is by Lord Des Browne and contains the exact stored sentence. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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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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