Cooper Frames AI as Pre-Catastrophe Foreign Policy Crisis, Demands Global Rules

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper warned on 5 July that artificial intelligence poses "Hiroshima-scale" catastrophic risk without binding international governance. In a Chatham House essay, she explicitly named the US and China as essential to any credible framework, drawing a deliberate parallel to nuclear weapons agreements that materialized only after atomic destruction. Cooper told the Guardian she expects AI to dominate foreign policy for the next two years.