Campaign Statement

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Superintelligent AI are systems that can autonomously compromise national security, escape human oversight, and upend international stability.

Many AI systems are benign. Superintelligent AI is not: Nobel Prize winners, leading AI scientists, and CEOs of leading AI companies have warned that AI poses an extinction risk on par with nuclear war. Despite this warning, multiple competing efforts to build superintelligent AI are underway.

Protecting Canadians from the development of superintelligence, at home and abroad, must be a national security priority. Canada should negotiate an international "trust but verify" regime to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI.

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The Honourable Judy A. Sgro, P.C. MP

William Stevenson MP

Martin Champoux MP,
on behalf of the MPs of Bloc Québécois

The Honourable Colin Deacon, Senator

Joël Godin MP

The Honourable Kim Pate, Senator

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Our Supporters

Hon. Judy A. Sgro MP

Liberal

William Stevenson MP

Conservative

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Martin Champoux MP

on behalf of the MPs of Bloc Québécois

Hon. Senator Colin Deacon

CSG

Joël Godin MP

Conservative

Hon. Senator Tony Loffreda

ISG

Hon. Jonathan Wilkinson MP

Liberal

Cathay Wagantall MP

Conservative

Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay MP

Independent

Arnold Viersen MP

Conservative

Hon. Senator Kim Pate

ISG

Hon. Senator Mary Jane McCallum

Conservative

Hon. Steven Guilbeault MP

Liberal

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Expert endorsements for our campaign

Stuart Russell

Professor of Computer Science, Berkeley, Director of CHAI; Co-author of the standard textbook for artificial intelligence

“The leading AI companies are investing (quite literally) trillions of dollars to create superintelligent AI. They freely admit that they don’t know how it works, they don’t know how to control it, and it has a good chance of causing human extinction. It’s like playing Russian roulette with the entire human race. What are governments for, if they are going to allow our civilization to end, all in the pursuit of someone else’s profit?”

Daniel Kokotajlo

Former OpenAI Researcher

“The development of superintelligent AI poses an extinction risk to humanity because no one knows how to maintain control over AI that is vastly more capable than humans. Continuing down the current path is a gamble we cannot afford to lose. It's heartening to see Canadian lawmakers taking this risk seriously and calling for an international prohibition on superintelligence."

David Krueger

CEO of Evitable; Assistant Professor in Machine Learning at Mila, University of Montreal

"To proceed towards superintelligent AI without any concrete plan to control it is completely unacceptable. We need effective regulation that reduces the risk to an acceptable level. Developers cannot currently comply with any effective regulation because they do not understand what they are building."

Stuart Russell

Professor of Computer Science, Berkeley, Director of CHAI; Co-author of the standard textbook for artificial intelligence

“The leading AI companies are investing (quite literally) trillions of dollars to create superintelligent AI. They freely admit that they don’t know how it works, they don’t know how to control it, and it has a good chance of causing human extinction. It’s like playing Russian roulette with the entire human race. What are governments for, if they are going to allow our civilization to end, all in the pursuit of someone else’s profit?”

Daniel Kokotajlo

Former OpenAI Researcher

“The development of superintelligent AI poses an extinction risk to humanity because no one knows how to maintain control over AI that is vastly more capable than humans. Continuing down the current path is a gamble we cannot afford to lose. It's heartening to see Canadian lawmakers taking this risk seriously and calling for an international prohibition on superintelligence."

David Krueger

CEO of Evitable; Assistant Professor in Machine Learning at Mila, University of Montreal

"To proceed towards superintelligent AI without any concrete plan to control it is completely unacceptable. We need effective regulation that reduces the risk to an acceptable level. Developers cannot currently comply with any effective regulation because they do not understand what they are building."