UK AI minister says testing, not superintelligence, is Britain's AI play; critic calls it vassalage
rosstaylor90 · x · 2026-10-15
UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan, responding to an MPs' open letter calling for a superintelligence ban, said the UK has no near-term path to building superintelligence and should instead focus on testing others' models, hardening cyber defenses, and shaping global norms ahead of the G20.
X user rosstaylor90 slammed the position as dangerously passive: without domestic pre-training, the UK is 'doomed to be a US vassal state.' He warns that automation of sectors like Canary Wharf finance could dwarf the post-2008 austerity shock to the UK tax base, and urges the government to unleash domestic talent to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic.
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