Andrea Miotti is the founder and CEO of ControlAI, a non-profit dedicated to mitigating the risks from powerful AI systems. Working in the US, UK, Canada, and Germany, ControlAI calls for prohibiting the development of superintelligent AI, as AI experts assess it poses an extinction risk. Andrea’s published work on the extinction risk of superintelligent AI includes The Compendium, which explains the extinction risks from AI, and A Narrow Path, covering proposals intended for action by policymakers. His expert commentary and op-eds have appeared in outlets including TIME, The Guardian, BBC, and more.

Where do you see the most exciting research/debates happening in your field?

I wouldn’t exactly call it exciting, rather urgent, but the biggest policy debate in my field is around the AI industry’s race to develop superintelligence. Top AI scientists, Nobel Prize winners, and even the CEOs of leading AI companies themselves warn that superintelligence poses an extinction risk to humanity, yet the race to develop it continues. My organization, ControlAI, is advocating for a prohibition on superintelligence. We work to inform governments and the public about this issue. Most people don’t know that AI companies’ end goal is not chatbots but superintelligent AI. If they don’t know about the threat, they cannot act.

In January 2026, ControlAI supported two debates in the UK House of Lords in which members discussed this extinction threat and the pursuit of an international moratorium on superintelligent AI. Over 100 cross-party UK parliamentarians back our campaign recognizing the extinction risk from AI and identifying superintelligence as a global and national security threat. In Canada, we have briefed more than 100 lawmakers in less than a year about the risk from superintelligence, and we just launched our campaign with over 30 MPs and Senators calling for an international agreement prohibiting superintelligence. There have now been several rounds of hearings in the Canadian House of Commons and Senate covering the risks from AI. I was honoured to give expert testimony before the Canadian House of Commons, warning about the extinction risk posed by superintelligence.

How has the way you understand the world changed over time, and what (or who) prompted the most significant shifts in your thinking?

My worldview shifted significantly in 2019, while I was researching how government industrial policy shapes technological innovation, and the role of general purpose technologies across human history. That’s when I realized AI would be the next general purpose technology, and that sufficiently advanced AI would be capable of automating all........

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