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Artificial Superintelligence Bill

Record GB-10 · Bill 4288 (Session 2026-27)

Issued by
House of Commons (Private Members' Bill, Alex Sobel MP)
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
Level · region
National · Europe
Published / adopted
2026-09-08
Language
English
Official identifier
Bill 4288 (Session 2026-27)

Summary

A Private Members' Bill presented in the House of Commons under the Ten Minute Rule by Alex Sobel MP in September 2026. According to its long title, it would prohibit the development, deployment and operation of artificial superintelligence systems and establish monitoring and control powers in respect of such systems.

Safety topics

catastrophic riskgeneral-purpose / frontier AIprohibited practices

Scope

Borderline scope A Private Members' Bill under the Ten Minute Rule, a procedure that Parliament describes as often a way for members to voice an opinion rather than a serious attempt to pass a bill; included as a pending bill on artificial superintelligence.

Status notes

First reading in the House of Commons on 8 September 2026; second reading scheduled for 13 November 2026. Parliament describes Ten Minute Rule bills as often an opportunity for members to voice an opinion on a subject rather than a serious attempt to get a bill passed.

Sources

Open the official source https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4288

Secondary source: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4288/stages

Local copy

Download failed. The official source could not be downloaded: HTTP 403 Forbidden. The secondary source could not be downloaded (HTTP 403 Forbidden). The browser retry also failed (Browser could not load the page: Page.goto: Timeout 45000ms exceeded.). Last attempt 2026-10-18 07:43:45 UTC

Verification

A
The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · official-url-fetched
Refresh of 18 Oct 2026. The record's pages on bills.parliament.uk still refuse the archiver (HTTP 403; the browser retry timed out on 11, 16, 17 and 18 Oct 2026). Stored in this run instead: the UK Parliament Bills API entries for bill 4288 (bill record, stages and publications) and the API's list of bill types, on bills-api.parliament.uk, which was recorded as an official UK Parliament site on 18 Oct 2026 (issue #125). The API is Parliament's own record of the bill, an official register. It confirms the short and long title, the sponsor (Alex Sobel, Labour, Leeds Central and Headingley), the Commons as originating and current house, bill type 5 (Private Members' Bill under the Ten Minute Rule), first reading on 8 Sep 2026 and second reading set for 13 Nov 2026, and that the bill is not an Act, not defeated and not withdrawn. The API lists no publications, so no printed bill or printed bill number exists yet, and it gives the session only as ID 40; 'Bill 4288 (Session 2026-27)' in official_identifier is the database ID with a session the API does not name.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 5 field(s) supported.

History

  1. 2026-10-18verification.level: C → A — level computed from the evidence by tools/pipeline.py2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  2. 2026-10-18scope_note: Private member's bill with little chance of passing; the existing scope_note is → A Private Members' Bill under the Ten Minute Rule, a procedure that Parliament d — the published scope_note was a reviewer's remark ('the existing scope_note is kept', 'rests on secondary reporting, not on a stored official file'); rewritten as a public statement of why the bill is borderline and included, from Parliament's own description of Ten Minute Rule bills2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  3. 2026-10-17verification.level: A → C — level computed from the evidence by tools/pipeline.py2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  4. 2026-10-17scope_note: A backbench private member's bill without government support, very unlikely to b → Private member's bill with little chance of passing; the existing scope_note is — pipeline run 2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 (recheck), candidate GB-102026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  5. 2026-10-17notes: First reading 8 Sep 2026; second reading provisionally scheduled for 13 Nov 2026 → First reading in the House of Commons on 8 September 2026; second reading schedu — removed the secondary-only statements (government position, the 11 Sep 2026 letter) and the process remark the old notes contained; added the stage dates and Parliament's description of Ten Minute Rule bills2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  6. 2026-10-17safety_topics: ["catastrophic risk", "general-purpose / frontier AI", "prohibited practices", " → ["catastrophic risk", "general-purpose / frontier AI", "prohibited practices"] — 'international cooperation' dropped: it rested on the sponsor's speech, not on the bill2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  7. 2026-10-17summary: A Ten Minute Rule Private Members' Bill that would prohibit developing, deployin → A Private Members' Bill presented in the House of Commons under the Ten Minute R — rewritten to what the bill's long title and type say; the sponsor's framing as a step towards an international agreement came from his speech, which is not stored2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  8. 2026-10-17date_last_updated: 2026-09-09 → – — the only 2026-09-09 date in the stored sources is the database's 'lastUpdate' timestamp; the API lists no publications, so there is no amended or new version of the bill2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  9. 2026-10-14scope_note: – → A backbench private member's bill without government support, very unlikely to b — borderline under the include-and-flag rules of issue #22026-10-14-issue-2-scope-notes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  10. 2026-10-14notes: First reading 8 Sep 2026; second reading provisionally scheduled for 13 Nov 2026 → First reading 8 Sep 2026; second reading provisionally scheduled for 13 Nov 2026 — scope caveat moved to scope_note2026-10-14-issue-2-scope-notes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

House of Commons (Private Members' Bill, Alex Sobel MP). Artificial Superintelligence Bill [Bill 4288 (Session 2026-27)]. 2026-09-08. https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4288. Status: Draft / proposed; verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record GB-10.

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