# Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill **Entity class:** UK private member's bill **Date in source:** 8 September 2026 **Maturity:** Developing ## Status and authorship Labour MP Alex Sobel introduced this proposal in the House of Commons on 8 September 2026 through the Ten Minute Rule route. [[wiki/ControlAI|ControlAI]] [says it drafted the proposal](https://controlai.org/uk-kill-switch-amendment). [[articles/war with empire/The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban|The Real No Kings Moment]] reports support from Geoffrey Hinton and Stuart Russell and ControlAI's claim of cross-party support from more than 140 lawmakers. Those endorsements and counts should be attributed to the relevant sources. The article expressly distinguishes a backbench private member's bill from UK government policy: it says the government does not support the Sobel bill and that the Ten Minute Rule route gives it little prospect of becoming law. It is also distinct from the [[wiki/Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act|Sanders–Casar U.S. proposal]], which was announced as forthcoming on 3 September. ## Relationships - **Parliamentary sponsor:** Alex Sobel introduced the UK proposal. - **Drafting claim:** [[wiki/ControlAI|ControlAI]] identifies itself as the drafter. - **Comparison:** [[wiki/Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act|The U.S. proposal]] shares an apparent prohibition-and-oversight architecture but has separate sponsors and status. - **Analytical route:** [[wiki/Definitional Valve|Definitional Valve]] and [[wiki/Sovereignty by Adjudication|Sovereignty by Adjudication]] are applied in [[articles/war with empire/The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban|the article]] within [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]].