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Harry and Meghan join hundreds to call for ban on artificial superintelligence

Ava Thompson by Ava Thompson
October 22, 2025
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Hundreds of public figures, including Nobel Prize-winning scientists, former military leaders, artists and members of the British royal family, signed a statement Wednesday calling for a ban on work that could lead to computational superintelligence, a still-unfinished stage of artificial intelligence that they say could one day pose a threat to humanity.

The statement proposes “a ban on the development of superintelligence” until there is both “broad scientific consensus that it will be done in a safe and controllable manner” and “strong public support.”

Organized by AI researchers concerned about the rapid pace of technological advancement, the statement garnered more than 800 signatures from a diverse group of people. Signatories include Nobel laureate and AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen, rapper Will.i.am, former Trump White House aide Steve Bannon and Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle.

The statement adds to a growing list of calls for a slowdown in AI at a time when AI threatens to reshape large swaths of the economy and culture. OpenAI, Google, Meta and other technology companies are investing billions of dollars in new AI models and the data centers that power them, while companies of all types are looking for ways to add AI capabilities to a wide range of products and services.

Some AI researchers believe that AI systems are advancing quickly enough to demonstrate what is known as artificial general intelligence, or the ability to perform intellectual tasks as a human would. From there, researchers and technology leaders believe what might come next could be superintelligence, in which AI models perform better than even the most expert humans.

The statement is the product of the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit group that works on large-scale risks such as nuclear weapons, biotechnology and AI. Among its first backers in 2015 was tech billionaire Elon Musk, who is now part of the AI ​​race with his startup xAI. Today, according to the institute, its largest recent donor is Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain, and it says it does not accept donations from large technology companies or companies seeking to develop artificial general intelligence.

Its executive director, Anthony Aguirre, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said developments in AI are happening faster than the public can understand what’s happening or what’s coming next.

“At one level, this path was chosen for us by AI companies, their founders, and the economic system that drives them, but no one has really asked almost anyone else, ‘Is this what we want?’ “, he said in an interview.

“It was quite surprising to me that there was less frank discussion about, ‘Do we want these things?’ Do we want AI systems to replace humans?” he said. “It’s sort of interpreted as: well, this is where it’s going, so buckle up, and we’ll just have to deal with the consequences. But I don’t think that’s actually the case. We have many choices about how we develop technologies, including this one.”

The statement is not directed at any specific organization or government. Aguirre said he hopes to force a conversation that includes not only major AI companies, but also politicians from the United States, China and elsewhere. He said the Trump administration’s pro-industry views on AI needed to be balanced.

“That’s not what the public wants. They don’t want to get into a race for it,” he said. He said there may eventually be a need for an international treaty on advanced AI, as is the case for other potentially dangerous technologies.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the statement Tuesday, ahead of its official release.

Americans are almost evenly divided on the potential impact of AI, according to an NBC News Decision Desk poll conducted this year by SurveyMonkey. While 44% of U.S. adults surveyed said they believed AI would improve their lives and the lives of their families, 42% said they believed it would make their future worse.

Top tech executives, who have made predictions about superintelligence and indicated they are working toward it as a goal, did not sign the statement. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in July that superintelligence was “now in sight.” Musk posted on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said last month that he would be surprised if superintelligence didn’t arrive by 2030 and wrote in a January blog post that his company was turning its attention there.

Several technology companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the statement.

Last week, the Future of Life Institute told NBC News that OpenAI subpoenaed it and its president in retaliation for calling for AI oversight. Jason Kwon, OpenAI’s chief strategy officer, wrote on October 11 that the subpoena was the result of OpenAI’s suspicions about the funding sources of several nonprofit groups that had criticized its restructuring.

Other signatories to the declaration include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Virgin Group co-founder Richard Branson, conservative talk show host Glenn Beck, former US national security adviser Susan Rice, Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Mather, Turing Prize winner and AI researcher Yoshua Bengio and the Rev. Paolo Benanti, Vatican AI advisor. Several China-based AI researchers also signed the statement.

Aguirre said the goal was to have a broad range of signatories from across society.

“We want this to be a social license for people to talk about it, but we also want to clearly show that this is not a niche issue reserved for some nerds in Silicon Valley, who are often the only ones at the table. This is an issue for all of humanity,” he said.

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