ControlAI
ControlAI is a nonprofit advocacy organization that campaigns to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI, citing extinction risks. It informs the public, briefs policymakers and journalists, and organizes constituents to contact lawmakers, primarily in the US, UK, Canada, and Germany.www.controlai.com
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Oct 18, 2026
Dave FarinaHOST
So let's all do what we can today.
Dave FarinaHOST
Take just a few seconds of your time and go to controlai.com slash takeaction to ask your lawmakers to address this issue.
Dave FarinaHOST
And as always, thanks for watching.
Dave FarinaGUEST
Control AI.
Jon PerryHOST
ControlAI.com is the, is the-
Dave FarinaGUEST
I think so.
Dave FarinaGUEST
I forget.
Will GuyattHOST
If we build something smarter than us and we can't control it, what happens next? Well, our guest today has been asking that question for years, and his answer isn't comforting.
Will GuyattHOST
He co-founded EleutherAI, one of the groups that showed the world that open source language models were possible, and then he ran the AI safety lab Conjecture.
Will GuyattHOST
And now he's taken the fight to Washington.
Will GuyattHOST
He is Connor Leahy.
Will GuyattHOST
He's US director of Control AI, and he thinks the safest move for superintelligence is to not build it at all.
Will GuyattHOST
Thanks for joining us, Connor.
Will GuyattHOST
Good to see you.
Will GuyattHOST
How on earth did you get from there to th- to here?
Enda BradyHOST
Conor, you're in Washington, D.C. How much understanding of this grave threat, as you would say it is, is there in the corridors of power?
Conor LeahyGUEST
We at Control AI have been briefing politicians across the globe for over two years now.
Conor LeahyGUEST
And in the U.S. alone, we have briefed over 200 congressional offices.
Conor LeahyGUEST
And overwhelmingly, the number one reaction I get is not that people disagree with or think that it's good that this is happening.
Christina ParaskosHOST
but seemingly non-enforceable, series of commitments to undertake AI testing in a safe and responsible way.
Christina ParaskosHOST
U.S. Executive Director of Non-Profit Control AI, Conor Leahy, told RNZ's Morning Report that artificial intelligence poses similar risks to nuclear war and should be tightly regulated.
Christina ParaskosHOST
Mr. Leahy says there's strong support from the public and politicians in the U.S. for regulating AI.
Christina ParaskosHOST
The British Prime Minister Andy Burnham says his government believes an incident last week at an airbase in England, used by US heavy bombers, was linked to Iran.
Steve PiersonHOST
So today we're going to dive deeper into what is really happening with an expert who has been sounding the alarm for years.
Steve PiersonHOST
Connor Leahy is the U.S. Executive Director of Control AI and a leading voice on AI.
Steve PiersonHOST
He was the founder of Aluthier AI, a community that built the first open source large language models.
Steve PiersonHOST
and the AI safety group Conjecture.
Tango BotelliHOST
Welcome to AI Stopwatch.
Tango BotelliHOST
This is the Daily Digest for Sunday, September 27th, 2026.
Tango BotelliHOST
Massive Effort A Visit to Parliament Petabytes of Logs And a Conscientious Resignation By Phil Hazelden and Mitchell Howe First, let's read our guest post by Phil Hazelden.
Tango BotelliHOST
Pause AI UK's visit to Parliament.
Tango BotelliHOST
What I learned when I failed to meet my representative.
Tango BotelliHOST
Editor's note.
Tango BotelliHOST
Despite our US-heavy readership, I invited Phil to share this experience because the AI problem is a global problem and many of these UK insights apply to politics in general.
Tango BotelliHOST
Keep in mind that the visit he describes took place months before the Jacob Coxon awakening.