India, Oct. 22 -- Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have joined a diverse coalition of scientists, political leaders, artists, and tech pioneers in calling for a global ban on the development of artificial "superintelligence" - AI systems capable of outperforming humans across most cognitive tasks - until there is clear scientific consensus that such technology can be deployed safely.

The statement, organized by the Future of Life Institute (FLI), was released Wednesday and represents one of the broadest cross-sector appeals yet for restraint in AI development. Among the signatories are AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, economist Daron Acemoglu, former US national securi...