Experts warn AI
threatens
human extinction
We can avert this threat by banning runaway machine intelligence
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What is runaway machine intelligence?
The goal of all major AI companies is to develop systems that can operate fully autonomously, without any human direction. The result would be runaway machine intelligence: systems able to overpower any country’s national security forces.
The pace of AI development means runaway machine intelligence could arrive before 2030. No method exists to contain such a system: once developed, it would threaten the lives of everyone on Earth.
The US and its allies must coordinate to prevent its development at home and abroad, including by foreign adversaries like China.
Averting the threat
of human extinction
ControlAI is a nonprofit working to avert the threat of human extinction posed by runaway machine intelligence.
We take a direct approach: we meet everyone in the democratic process, from lawmakers to journalists and citizens, explain the threat in plain terms, and ask them to act.
We brief lawmakers
ControlAI has briefed over 250 congressional offices about the threat runaway machine intelligence poses to every American's life.
We have consulted on the first bill ever introduced in the US Congress to ban development of runaway machine intelligence, which shares core elements of its approach with our discussion draft.
We also work across the UK, Canada and Germany, where we've briefed over 400 lawmakers, and more than 200 have supported our campaigns.
We collaborate with journalists and creators
We help people take action
Most people have never been told that runaway machine intelligence threatens their lives. ControlAI informs millions of people help them turn their concern into political action.
We have helped a community of 300,000 people to send over 200,000 messages to their lawmakers, most of them in the US, asking them to pass legislation to ban runaway machine intelligence.
Over 2,000 people have joined our Citizen Groups, where we help them meet their lawmakers in person and urge them to address this threat.
UPDATE · September 8, 2026
The first bill ever introduced to ban runaway machine intelligence
On September 8, 2026, UK lawmaker Alex Sobel MP introduced ControlAI’s bill, the Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill, in Parliament. The bill would ban runaway machine intelligence in the UK, while ensuring the country can still pursue its AI ambitions for economic prosperity and defense.
It would also require the UK to work with other countries toward an international agreement banning runaway machine intelligence worldwide.
The bill is supported by a cross-party coalition of more than 85 lawmakers, who have written to the Prime Minister urging the government to adopt its framework and use the UK’s upcoming G20 presidency to lead a coalition to address the threat of runaway machine intelligence.
ControlAI team members heading into Parliament for the bill's introduction
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