An interesting article on emergent capabilities and AI based weapons systems that doesn't seem to have been on any lesswrong radars:

https://tomdispatch.com/emergent-ai-behavior-and-human-destiny/

Are people aware that the British government will be ejected in a year's time, barring a miracle?

A year could do a lot of good (for example the summit and focusing it on not-kill-everyoneism)

But beyond a year it will depend on Labour not reverting to the mean and losing focus. They are probably very worried about AI's saying mean things to disadvantaged groups or displacing workers too quickly - a trap the taskforce hasn't fallen into. This lack of focus is not because Labour are useless but because they are simply not as unusually open to rationalist adjacent arguments as the Sunak (and Johnson) regimes.

Will international AI alignment cooperation trump the rights of weaker countries?

TLDR - Real cooperation on International AI regulation may only be possible through a much more peaceful but unsentimental foreign policy 

In 1987 President Reagan said to the United Nations "how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world."  Isn't an unaligned Artificial General Intelligence that alien threat? And it's easy - and perhaps overly obvious and comforting - to say that humanity would unite, but ... (read more)

Wikipedia is a trusted brand for introducing new topics and has great placement with search engines. There are three potential headaches though.

(1) The Neutral Point of View (NPOV) rules mean in theory that one side of the argument can't dictate how a topic is dealt with, so even without a concerted effort there may creep in weasel words and various areas of balance. 93% chance of happening. It will be low impact on bias providing odd headaches but potentially improving article. About a 30% chance of making some of the article unreadable to a newcomer and ... (read more)