ControlAI briefed ~200 US congressional offices and drafted UK 'kill switch' bill
DrTechlash · x · 2026-09-16
A thread details the policy reach of UK group ControlAI, whose Creator Outreach and Systems Lead is Max Winga:
- US: Behind Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar's bill to ban superintelligence development; briefed nearly 200 congressional offices and over 20 Senate/House members on AI extinction risk.
- UK: Drafted the "kill switch" bill amendment introduced by Lord Tim Clement-Jones and the "ban superintelligence" bill introduced by Alex Sobel; briefed over 180 cross-party parliamentarians.
- Its proposal "A Narrow Path" calls for a 20-year AI pause, arguing "two decades provide the minimum time."
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