Cross-party MPs and senators back ControlAI campaign to prohibit superintelligent AI

A short campaign statement, co-signed by a multipartisan group of Canadian MPs and senators and endorsed by leading AI researchers, calling for Canada to negotiate an international "trust but verify" regime to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI. The statement argues that superintelligent AI — systems that can autonomously compromise national security, escape human oversight, and upend international stability — poses an extinction risk on par with nuclear war, citing warnings from Nobel laureates, leading AI scientists, and the CEOs of leading AI companies. It holds that "protecting Canadians from the development of superintelligence, at home and abroad, must be a national security priority," and concludes that "Canada should negotiate an international 'trust but verify' regime to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI." Parliamentary signatories include Liberal MPs Judy Sgro, Jonathan Wilkinson and Steven Guilbeault; Conservative MPs William Stevenson, Joël Godin, Cathay Wagantall and Arnold Viersen; Bloc Québécois MP Martin Champoux (on behalf of the Bloc's MPs); Independent MP Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay; and senators Colin Deacon, Tony Loffreda, Kim Pate, Paulette Senior, Judy A. White, Jim Quinn and Mary Jane McCallum. Expert endorsers include Geoffrey Hinton, Stuart Russell, Daniel Kokotajlo and David Krueger.