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Connor Leahy: Building Runaway Machine Intelligence Should Be Illegal, Like Building a Nuclear Bomb
According to the description, ControlAI's US Executive Director, Connor Leahy, speaking with Jon Bateman on Carnegie Endowment's The World Unpacked, proposes an international prohibition on developing runaway machine intelligence, with restrictions and monitoring of its precursors.
Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
For lawmakers
ControlAI's Connor Leahy proposes banning runaway superintelligence internationally and monitoring precursors, modelled on how nuclear weapons development is prohibited.
The record
- Questions
- Who can demand evidence, delay a release or stop an unsafe deployment?
- People
- Connor Leahy (Speaks, US Executive Director, ControlAI) · Jon Bateman (Mentioned, host, The World Unpacked)
- 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 November 1, 2026, via
yt-controlai(tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record) - Cite this
- ControlAI, “Connor Leahy: Building Runaway Machine Intelligence Should Be Illegal, Like Building a Nuclear Bomb”, October 31, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/controlai-2026-10-31-leahy-ban-runaway-intelligence
Our notesLight lane: description only; no transcript read. The description is ControlAI's own promotional copy.