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British Labour and Co-operative politician, MP in the House of Commons since 2017 for Leeds North West, now Leeds Central and Headingley.
Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar want a federal ban on developing AI capable of overpowering the federal government. ControlAI, which says it advised their offices, argues the bill's mandatory pause on advanced AI is unnecessary.
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The Joint Committee on Human Rights wants stricter duties on higher-risk systems and an oversight body written into law. OpenAI says it would accept a narrow frontier-only law on security risks. The two asks name different companies.
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The joint committee on human rights wants legislation, a single regulator and transparency across the AI life cycle. Automated flagging of worker discipline sits on its list of threats, and the enforcement it describes is aimed at providers.
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The Joint Committee on Human Rights says no country's rules on AI are fit for purpose, and it wants a statutory oversight body, tiered duties across the supply chain and some uses banned outright. It can only recommend.
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A cross-party group of peers and MPs wants a legal power to force a frontier AI model offline in an emergency. The Cabinet Office told the BBC that blocking UK access would not stop models being developed or misused elsewhere.
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Alex Sobel's bill may go nowhere and its text is not public, yet the same week showed where a capability rule would attach, with Anthropic declining to send Mythos 5.1 to the UK's AI Security Institute before release.
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