In an era when artificial intelligence is reshaping the boundaries of human experience faster than law can follow, a cross-party committee of British parliamentarians has issued a formal warning: the existing legal order is not equipped to protect people from harms already unfolding. Meeting in the long tradition of democratic societies that reach for new instruments when old ones fail, the Joint Committee on Human Rights has called for dedicated legislation, a single oversight body, and the outright prohibition of AI uses that cannot be reconciled with fundamental human dignity. Their report