Governments Must Prohibit Superintelligent AI While We Still Can

While announcing his resignation on Sept 8., the now-former Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon wrote, “I don’t feel like we’re on track to prevent a global race” toward superintelligence. We might not be today, but we can change course quickly.

The momentum behind an international ban on developing superintelligence is picking up speed. Over 200 cross-party lawmakers across the UK and Canada have been ahead of the curve on superintelligence risks by recognizing it as a global and national security threat as part of ControlAI’s campaign. In addition to the newly introduced UK bill, Vice President J.D. Vance told AI companies this week, “If you’re building Frankenstein, stop.” Further, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar announced in early September that they will introduce a bill prohibiting superintelligence development and calling for international agreements to prohibit it.

And in October 2025, a broad coalition called to prohibit superintelligence internationally. This was signed by the scientific “godfathers” of AI Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, and bipartisan political figures like former President Trump advisor Steve Bannon, Ambassador Susan Rice, and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, former President Trump advisor Steve Bannon.