Podcast: Massive effort
Sep 28, 2026 · 20 min · 10 segments
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Sep 28, 2026 · 20 min · 10 segments
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aistop.watch
It turns out you can just show up at Westminster Hall and ask to meet your Member of Parliament.
our concrete request for them was to sign a, not yet publicized, open letter from the organization calling for AI labs to be held liable for damages caused by their models.
She replied on March 26, not dismissing the risks, but reassuring me that the Labour government had things in hand.
Then, on June 17, I asked her to sign the pause AI letter and to meet me when I visited Parliament.
At least she switched from describing the issue as quote-unquote serious to quote-unquote vital.
I'd been advised to email several times, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing, so I wasn't expecting a meeting myself.
Also, Keir Starmer had resigned as Prime Minister the day before, so MPs were more likely to be around but also less likely to have time for us.
I stood in an airport-style security line for about half an hour, then waited another hour or so before I could fill out my green card to request a meeting.
Normally that would have been faster, but another group, I don't know who, had picked the same day to all show up, and the stewards were limiting how often people could go in to the central lobby.
After filling out the green card, which I think was neither green nor card, I waited for a few more hours without hearing anything, and then left with most of the remainder of the group.
Some of us also ran into Jeremy Corbyn, former Labour Party leader, now of a party confusingly named Your Party, not MP for any of us, who seemed receptive.
The two parties have an agreement, and some candidates run simultaneously for both.
It turns out you can just show up at Westminster Hall and ask to meet your Member of Parliament.
our concrete request for them was to sign a, not yet publicized, open letter from the organization calling for AI labs to be held liable for damages caused by their models.
She replied on March 26, not dismissing the risks, but reassuring me that the Labour government had things in hand.
Then, on June 17, I asked her to sign the pause AI letter and to meet me when I visited Parliament.
At least she switched from describing the issue as quote-unquote serious to quote-unquote vital.
I'd been advised to email several times, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing, so I wasn't expecting a meeting myself.
Also, Keir Starmer had resigned as Prime Minister the day before, so MPs were more likely to be around but also less likely to have time for us.
I stood in an airport-style security line for about half an hour, then waited another hour or so before I could fill out my green card to request a meeting.
Normally that would have been faster, but another group, I don't know who, had picked the same day to all show up, and the stewards were limiting how often people could go in to the central lobby.
After filling out the green card, which I think was neither green nor card, I waited for a few more hours without hearing anything, and then left with most of the remainder of the group.
Some of us also ran into Jeremy Corbyn, former Labour Party leader, now of a party confusingly named Your Party, not MP for any of us, who seemed receptive.
The two parties have an agreement, and some candidates run simultaneously for both.
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