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Top AI Scientist Tells MPs: Don’t Build It.
According to the description, ControlAI posted a clip of Geoffrey Irving, former Chief Scientist of the AI Security Institute, telling MPs that AI companies wrongly assume nobody else will act on the race to superintelligence and that they cannot exit it themselves.
Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
For lawmakers
Per ControlAI, Geoffrey Irving told MPs that governments can take action on the race to superintelligence and that middle powers can play a large role.
The question it raises
Irving frames the race as a choice the world can make, not something companies cannot escape.
The record
- Questions
- Who can demand evidence, delay a release or stop an unsafe deployment? · How fast is AI advancing, and where is it heading?
- People
- Geoffrey Irving (Speaks, Former Chief Scientist, AI Security Institute)
- What we read
- We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 21, 2026, via
yt-controlai(tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record) - Cite this
- ControlAI, “Top AI Scientist Tells MPs: Don’t Build It.”, October 21, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/controlai-2026-10-21-irving-tells-mps-dont-build
Our notesLight lane: description only; date and venue of the MPs session not given. Clip is by an advocacy channel.