Preamble —
As companies race to develop and deploy AI systems, humanity faces a fork in the road. One path is a race to replace: humans replaced as creators, counselors, caregivers and companions, then in most jobs and decision-making roles, concentrating ever more power in unaccountable institutions and their machines. An influential fringe even advocates altering or replacing humanity itself. This race to replace poses risks to societal stability, national security, economic prosperity, civil liberties, privacy, and democratic governance. It also imperils the human experiences of childhood and family, faith, and community.
A remarkably broad coalition rejects this path, united by a simple conviction: artificial intelligence should serve humanity, not the reverse. There is a better path, where trustworthy and controllable AI tools amplify rather than diminish human potential, empower people, enhance human dignity, protect individual liberty, strengthen families and communities, preserve self-governance and help create unprecedented health and prosperity. This path demands that those who wield technological power be accountable to human values and needs, in support of human flourishing.
1. Keeping Humans in Charge
Human Control Is Non-Negotiable: Humanity must remain in control. Humans should choose how and whether to delegate decisions to AI systems.
Meaningful Human Control: Humans should have authority and capacity to understand, guide, proscribe, and override AI systems.
No Superintelligence Race: Development of superintelligence should be prohibited until there is broad scientific consensus that it can be done safely and controllably, and there is strong public buy-in.
Off-Switch: Powerful AI systems must have mechanisms that allow human operators to promptly shut them down.
No Reckless Architectures: AI systems must not be designed so that they can self-replicate, autonomously self-improve, resist shutdown, or control weapons of mass destruction.
Independent Oversight: Highly autonomous AI systems where controllability is not obvious require pre-development review and independent oversight: genuine authority to understand, prohibit, and override, not industry self-regulation.
Capability Honesty: AI companies must provide clear, accurate and honest representations of their systems' capabilities and limitations.
2. Avoiding Concentration of Power
No AI Monopolies: AI monopolies that concentrate power, stifle innovation, and imperil entrepreneurship must be avoided.
Shared Prosperity: The benefits and economic prosperity created by AI should be shared broadly.
No Corporate Welfare: AI corporations should not be exempted from regulatory oversight or receive government bailouts.
Genuine Value Creation: AI development should prioritize solving real problems and creating authentic value.
Democratic Authority Over Major Transitions: Decisions about AI's role in transforming work, society, and civic life require democratic support, not unilateral corporate or government decree.
Avoid Societal Lock-In: AI development must not severely limit humanity's future options or irreversibly limit our agency over our future.
3. Protecting the Human Experience
Defense of Family and Community Bonds: AI should not supplant the foundational relationships that give life meaning—family, friendship, faith communities, and local connections.
Child Protection: Companies must not be allowed to exploit children or undermine their wellbeing with AI interactions creating emotional attachment or leverage.
Right to Grow: AI companies should not be allowed to stunt children's physical, mental or social growth or deprive them of essential experiences for healthy development during critical periods.
Pre-Deployment Safety Testing: Like drugs, chatbots must undergo pre-deployment testing for increased suicidal ideation, exacerbation of mental health disorders, escalation of acute crisis situations, and other known harms.
Bot-or-Not Labeling: AI-generated content that could reasonably be mistaken for human-generated must be clearly labeled as such.
No Deceptive Identity: AI should clearly and correctly identify itself as artificial, nonhuman, and not a professional, and it should not claim experiences it lacks.
No Behavioral Addiction: AIs should not cause addiction or compulsive use through manipulation, sycophantic validation, or attachment formation.
4. Human Agency and Liberty
No AI Personhood: AI systems must not be granted legal personhood, and AI systems should not be designed such that they deserve personhood.
Trustworthiness: AI must be transparent, accountable, reliable, and free from perverse private or authoritarian interests.
Liberty: AI must not curtail individual liberty, freedom of speech, religious practice, or association.
Data Rights and Privacy: People should have power over their personal data, with rights to access, correct, and delete it from active systems, AI training sets, and derived inferences.
Psychological Privacy: AI should not be allowed to exploit data about the mental or emotional states of users.
Avoiding Enfeeblement: AI systems should be designed to empower, rather than enfeeble their users.
5. Responsibility and Accountability for AI Companies
No Liability Shield: AI must not be able to act as a liability shield, preventing those deploying it from being legally responsible for their actions.
Developer Liability: Developers and deployers bear legal liability for defects, misrepresentation of capabilities, and inadequate safety controls, with statutes of limitation that account for harms emerging over time.
Personal Liability: There should be criminal penalties for executives responsible for prohibited child-targeted systems or ones causing catastrophic harm.
Independent Safety Standards: AI development shall be governed by independent safety standards and rigorous oversight.
No Regulatory Capture: AI companies must not be allowed undue influence over rules that govern them.
Failure Transparency: If an AI system causes harm, it should be possible to ascertain why as well as who is responsible.
AI Loyalty: AI systems performing functions in professions with fiduciary duties, such as health, finance, law, or therapy, must fulfill all of those duties, including mandated reporting, duty of care, conflict of interest disclosure, and informed consent.
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Yoshua Bengio Professor, Université de Montréal, Turing Award Laureate
Steve Bannon Fmr Executive Chairman of Breitbart News; fmr chief strategist to President Donald Trump; Host of War Room podcast
Susan Rice Fmr U.S. National Security Advisor & Policy Advisor for President Obama; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Rhodes Scholar
Glenn Beck Founder of Blaze media, radio host, TV personality, political commentator
Alan Minsky Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)
Ryan T. Anderson President, The Ethics and Public Policy Center
Walter Kim President, National Association of Evangelicals, board member, Christianity Today
Ralph Nader Consumer Advocate, Center for Study of Responsive Law, Presidential candidate
Daron Acemoğlu Nobel Laureate in Economics, MIT Institute Professor
Beatrice Fihn Nobel Peace Laureate, Founder of Lex International
Rev. Johnnie Moore, PhD President, The Congress of Christian Leaders
Margarita Louis Dreyfus Human Change Foundation, Owner and chair of the Louis Dreyfus Company group, founder of Human Change Foundation
Sir Richard Branson Founder, Virgin Group
Randi Weingarten President, American Federation of Teachers
Julianna Arnold Founding Member and Executive Director, Parents RISE!
Megan Garcia Blessed Mother Family Foundation
Joann Bogard Parents SOS
Michael Toscano Director, Family First Technology Initiative, Senior Fellow, Institute for Family Studies
Audrey Tang Cyber Ambassador, Taiwan
Mike Kubzansky CEO, Omidyar Network, Professor of Computational Engineering, Rice University, Member: US National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences
Janet Vestal Kelly fmr. Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources; fmr. Secretary of the Commonwealth
Tomicah Tillemann President, Project Liberty Institute
Stuart Russell Professor of Computer Science, Berkeley, Director of the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI); Co-author of the standard textbook 'Artificial Intelligence: a Modern Approach'
Tristan Harris Co-Founder, Center for Humane Technology
Brendan Steinhauser CEO, The Alliance for Secure AI
Dawn Nakagawa President, Berggruen Institute
Mikhail Samin Executive director, AI Governance and Safety Institute
Kelly Monroe Kullberg General Secretary, American Association of Evangelicals (AAE)
Jeffrey Bennett General Counsel, SAG-AFTRA
Joseph-Gordon Levitt Actor, Filmmaker, Founder, HITRECORD
Alyson Stoner Actress, dancer, and singer, SAG-AFTRA, known for Step Up, Camp Rock, and voicing Isabella in Phineas and Ferb.
Frances Fisher Actress, SAG-AFTRA, known for Titanic, Unforgiven, and Watchmen.
Anthony Aguirre Future of Life Institute
Max Tegmark Future of Life Institute
Clark Barrett Professor of Computer Science, Stanford
Moshe Vardi Professor of Computational Engineering, Rice University, Member: US National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences
David Autor Professor, Co-director, Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work, MIT Department of Economics,
Meredith Whittaker President, Signal Foundation
Emilia Javorsky Future of Life Institute
Jean Oelwang Founding CEO, Virgin Unite and Planetary Guardians
Andrea Miotti Founder and CEO, ControlAI
Marc Rotenberg Founder, Center for AI and Digital Policy
Malo Bourgon Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Michael Marinaccio Executive Director, Center for Responsible Technology
Dylan Hadfield-Menell Associate Professor of Computer Science, MIT
Sharon Li Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin Madison
Vael Gates Humans in Control
Deger Turan Metaculus
Ed Newton-Rex CEO, Fairly Trained
Alison Rice Managing Director, Design It For Us
Brooke Istook Chief Impact Officer, Heat Initiative
Medlir Mema Founder and Director, AI Ethics and Governance Institute; Senior Fellow, Organized Intelligence
Vivian Dong Programs Director, Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology
Tegan Maharaj Assistant Professor in Machine Learning, Mila
David Krueger CEO, Evitable; Assistant Professor, University of Montreal, Mila
Roman Yampolskiy Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. Author, AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable, UofL
Walter Scheirer Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame
Jillian Clare LA Board Member, Chair National Young Performer’s Committee, SAG-AFTRA
Nick Smoke Actor, SAG-AFTRA, known for "The Social Network"
Karen A. Brown Filmmaker/Actor, SAG-AFTRA/StardustBlue Media
Jesse Martinez Carlos Board Member, Los Angeles Local, SAG-AFTRA
Erik Passoja Co-Chair, LA New Technology Committee (2024-2025), SAG-AFTRA
Peggy Lane ORourke Actress, known from Seinfeld; SAG AFTRA Los Angeles Local Board Member, National Board Alternate
Rob Drake Out There Pictures
Joshua Hughes Greater Grace Christian Center
Cristine Legare UT Austin
Mark Brakel Future of Life Institute
Joe Allen Humans First
Alexandra Tsalidis Future of Life Institute
DZ Kalman Shalom Hartman Institute
David Hsu Senior Director of Programs and Policy, Omidyar Network
Bobby Halick Hit Record
Justin Bullock Americans for Responsible Innovation
Oliver Stephenson Federation of American Scientists
Daniel Bring American Affairs
Michael Kleinman Future of Life Institute
Prof. Sandra M Faber Prof. Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz
Kate McCarthy Women's Media Center
William Jones Future of Life Institute
Juliana Arnold Parent RISE!
Colin McGlynn Demand Progress Education Fund
Rabbi Geoff Mitelman Sinai and Synapses
John Unger FAITH Alliance—Fellowship Advancing Integrity in Technology & Humanity
David Haussler Professor, UC Santa Cruz
Beatrice Ekers Foresight Institute
Evan Davison Kotler Helena
Ari Rosenthal Torchbearer Community
Connor Leahy ControlAI US
Fr. Michael Baggot Associate Professor of Bioethics, Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum
Sugheanmungol Sarin AI Safety Asia
Isabella Hampton Future of Life Institute
Joshua Tan Public AI
Jeremy Ornstein Center for AI Safety
Emma Ruby Sachs Eko
Philip Reiner Institute for Security and Technology
Sam Hiner Young People's Alliance
Lachlan Carroll Center for AI Safety
Riki Parikh Alliance for Secure AI
Christian F. Nunes President, Saving Ourselves Foundation Inc.
Brian Boyd Future of Life Institute
Chase Hardin Future of Life Institute
Dalia Hashad Future of Life Institute
Saheb Gulati Center for AI Safety
Lucas Hansen CivAI
Marianna Richardson G20 Interfaith Forum Association
Sacha Hayworth Tech Oversight Project
Shana Mansbach Fathom
John McElligott Servitium AI and Serviti Corp
Holly Elmore Pause AI
Sander Volten Seismic Foundation
Jaron Lanier Computer Scientist, Author
Valerie M. Hudson University Distinguished Professor, Texas A&M University (and the Aegix Institute)
Maurine Molak Founder, David’s Legacy Foundation
Ron Ivey Founder and CEO, Noēsis Collaborative
Kirk Doran, Associate Professor of Economics Faculty, University of Notre Dame
Maria S. Eitel Founder, Plan A
Geoffrey Miller Associate Professor of Psychology, University of New Mexico
Camille Crittenden Executive Director, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, University of California
Joseph Vukov Associate Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago
David Evan Harris Chancellor's Public Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
Zachary Davis Co-Founder, Faith Matters
Seán Coughlan Director, To Zero
Andrew Broz AI Research & Strategy, Civilization Research Institute
David Brenner Co-Founder and Board Chair Emeritus, AI and Faith
Emilia Ismael Head of Communications & Operations, To Zero
Miki Yamashita Actor, SAG-AFTRA
Heather-Ashley Boyer Actor, Los Angeles Local Board Member, SAG-AFTRA
Anamitra Deb SVP, Programs and Policy, Omidyar Network
Catherine Bracy CEO & Founder, Tech Equity
Marie Fink Stunt Coordinator, SAG-AFTRA, Los Angeles National Board Member
Wes McEnany Future of Life Institute
Konstantine Anthony Councilmember, City of Burbank
Taylor Jones Design & Web Manager, Future of Life Institute
Stephen Casper AI researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kelly Kullberg American Association of Evangelicals, Veritas Forum
Ben Cumming Director of Communications, Future of Life Institute
Tristan Zucker Head of Operations, Humans First
Nancy Green Saraisky Executive Director, Ethical Tech Project
Anna Yelizarova Special Projects Lead, Future of Life Institute
John Richard President, Essential Information
Clare Morell Fellow, The Ethics and Public Policy Center
Lisa Gilbert Co-President, Public Citizen
Robert Weissman Co-President, Public Citizen
Vivian Dong Programs Director, Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology
Teri Olle Vice President, Economic Security Project
Brendan Bradley
Michelle Margolis Librarian, Columbia University
Colin McGlynn AI Policy Advisor, Demand Progress Education Fund
Sneha Revanur Founder & President, Encode
Heather Booth Organizer
Robert Creamer Partner, Democracy Partners
Brittney Gallagher Co-Founder, AI Objectives Institute
Rania Batrice Strategist, Founder and President, Batrice and Associates
Leah Seligmann CEO, The B Team
Hon Jeff Denham US Representative- CA 10 (2011-2019)
Andrew Trask Executive Director, OpenMined
Lawrence Lessig Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard University
Xiaohu Zhu Founder, Center for Safe AGI
John Sherman Executive Director, GuardRailNow/The AI Risk Network
Caleb Motupalli CEO, Agape Kingdom
Dr Luke McNally Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
Mark Gubrud, PhD
Felix De Simone Organizing Director, PauseAI US
Kevin Lotto AI Existential Risk Advocate, Torchbearer Community
Wesley H. Holliday Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Roger Kirkness CEO, Convictional, Inc.
Michael Huang Co-Director, PauseAI Australia
Maggie Munro Communications Strategist, Future of Life Institute
Lindsay Langenhoven Freelance responsible tech writer
Geoffrey Martin Odlum President, Odlum Global Strategies
Adam McCabe Head of Research, Convictional
Erik Otto Managing Director, Ethagi Inc.
Anna Hehir Head of Military AI Governance, Future of Life Institute
Siliconversations AI Safety YouTuber
Audrey Mocle Executive Director, Open MIC (Open Media and Information Companies Initiative)
Mark Jerusalem Researcher in international AI strategy, Independent
Gabriele Sarti Postdoctoral Researcher, Norhteastern University
Brett Cooper Fundraising Copywriter, JB Cooper LLC
Yeshodhara Baskaran Founder, ZuGrama
Guru Medasani Founder & CEO, Ridy
Shadi Bartsch Professor, Forum for Integrated Research
Louise Graham FRSA Founder, The Unwritten Future
Prof. Piotr Sankowski Director, IDEAS Research Institute
dr. Jeroen Franse AI Governance Advisor, AI Point EU
Patrick Hoang Student, Texas A&M University
Sun Gyoo Kang Founder, Law & Ethics in Tech
Carlos Javier Regazzoni Director, Committee in Global Health and Human Security, Argentine Council on Foreign Relations (CARI)
Jimena Sofia Viveros Alvarez President, The HumAIne Foundation
Ewan Morrison Author
Ori Nagel Producer, Doom Debates
Marc Barnes Editor, New Polity Magazine
Daniel Koch Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba, Canada
Andrea Fiegl Senior Policy Director, Media and Technology, Common Cause
Anderson Rocha Tavares Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Hunter Lees Graduate Student, Lipscomb University
Dr. Matthew Chequers Applied AI R&D, Convictional
Samuel Thibault Professor, University of Bordeaux
Joshua Cohen Distinguished Senior Fellow in Law, Philosophy, and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Ariartry Founder, The Altern Research Collective for Brains, Minds & Machines
Mikita Belahlazau Software engineer, Waymo
Dr. Lucas Mello Schnorr Associate Professor, UFRGS
Lauren Mecca Founder, Tech/ish
Amber Scorah Cofounder, Author, Psst.org
Amir Banifatemi Co-Founder, AI Commons
Álvaro Guglielmin Becker Student, UFRGS
Marcelo Soares Pimenta Full professor, UFRGS
Félix Pharand-Deschênes Director, Globaïa
Joshua Anderson Founder, Cantaloupe AI
David Wood Chair, London Futurists
Jeannie Joshi Brand Innovation
Ayoze García González National leader, Spain, PauseAI
Ron Bodkin CEO CEO, ChainML, Inc.
Iago Tonello Student, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Glen Webster Board Director, Meridian Cambridge
Vicente Veiga Student, UFRGS
Yixiong Hao Co-director, AI Safety Initiative at Georgia Tech
Rodrigo Cavalcanti AI Governance Consultant, Analogik
Mustafa Saeed Co-Founder & CEO, Luella
Manuel M. Oliveira, PhD Full Professor of Computer Science, UFRGS
Simon Skade Co-Lead, PauseAI Germany
Alon Torres AI Safety Advocate, Torchbearer Community, International Association for Safe & Ethical AI
Joel Luís Carbonera, PhD Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Benjamin Dreyfus Instructional Professor of Physics, George Mason University
Rafael Rost Sofware Engineer, SAP
Nivedita Sharma Business Management Consultant
Risto Uuk Visiting Researcher, London School of Economics
Doctor Caleb Bernacchio Legendre-Soulé Chair in Business Ethics, Associate Professor of Management & Faculty Director of the Center for Ethics and Economic Justice at Loyola University New Orleans, Loyola University New Orleans
Timothy B. Elder, PhD Research Associate, The Dartmouth Institute, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
Akbar Tri Laksana Founder, Athena© Organization Labs
Jackie Hart CEO, Exponential Infrastructure for Coordination
Sophia Ward People Services
Dr. Robert Muggah Co-founder, Igarape Institute
Fredy Enrique Mena Andrade CTO, Simuliz Interactive S.A.S
Nathan Metzger Volunteer and Board Member, PauseAI US
Daniel Gerritzen Science writer, author, Forschungsnetzwerk Extraterrestrische Intelligenz (Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research Network)
Michael Walker Author
Rufus Pollock CEO, Life Itself
Dan Lipworth Founder, True North Tutors
Heather-Ashley Boyer Actor, Los Angeles Local Board Member, SAG-AFTRA
Mr. Bennett Iorio President, Geopolitical Insight and Education Foundation
Ilia Grom Member of the Administrative Council, Art-Labyrinth
Rafael Gold Founding Partner, The Israeli Association for Ethics in AI
Pedro Javier Martos Velasco Principal Engineer, The Workshop
Izolda Dr. Takacs International lawyer, Norwegian Centre for Human Right
Saimir Baci Engineer CTO, Co-Founder, Augmentifai
Lionel Levine Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University
Professor Albert Ossó Castillon Professor, University of Graz (Austria)
Leonardo Holtz de Oliveira AI Researcher, SENAI Institute of Innovation
Grace Roberts
Dr Tony Carden Adjunct Researcher, University of the Sunshine Coast
Faisal S. AI Audit, AuditPartners
Daniel Yokomizo Human Being, Humanity
William Louth CTO, Humainary
Steven Adger Sys Admin/Web Dev, Independent Contractor
Kyle Brockley Founder, BrockboxLLC
Vanessa Chester SAG-AFTRA LA Local Board Member, Actress most known for The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Harriet the Spy
Ícaro Neri Pereira de Souza Researcher/Geographer, UFMG/CEFET-MG
John Weldon Clinical A.I. Director, Deciphex
Shane Cannon Psychotherapist
Benjamin Shimabukuro Cogito Systems Engineer, Epic
Nathan Hammond Founder, The Fellowship of Sovereign Consciousness
Hocine Sahnoun Volonteer, Teacher
Yaniv Ben Zriham VP R&D, Equashield
Mr Matthew Kilkenny Founder, Ethicalainow.org
Paul Dos Santos Group Head of Information Security, SG Fleet
Jon Salisbury CEO, Nexigen
Mr. Vlad Suheschi Photographer, sportphotoevents.com
Edson Prestes Full Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Santiago J. Isbert Perlender CEO - Author, CINME
Andrew Arkins
Kevin Russi Senior Partner, RUSSI + PARTNER
Cristóbal Rodríguez-Montoya Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
Christopher Wright CEO, The AI Trust Council
Clay Jackson
Jonathan Murphy
Ian Bassin Co Founder and Executive Director, Protect Democracy
Max Winga Policy Analyst, ControlAI
Roger Abbiss Founder, Occupy Earth
Marc Carter Chief, IT Business Management Division, US Army
Cyrus Hodes Founder, AI Safety Connect
Michael R Scheessele Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Psychology, Indiana University South Bend
Steven Damian Imparl Independent scholar, lawyer, AI engineer, and philosopher, Steven Damian Imparl
Anthony Bailey Software developer, Pause AI
Michael R Scheessele Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Psychology, Indiana University South Bend
Dmytro Hrybach Product Manager, Business
SAAKSHAR DUGGAL AI law Expert, AI Law Hub
Ionut Vasile Cyber Security Consultant, Independent Consultant
Luke Housego Board Member, Decentralised Human Architecture Foundation
Mohamed ElBendary AI Governance Researcher, Independent
Alexander McCoy Senior Movement Staff, Humans First
Bill Crandall Artist and Arts Educator, Viaduct Arts
Dr. George Tilesch President, PHI INSTITUTE for Augmented Intelligence
Mridutpal Bhattacharyya Chief Policy Advisor, Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law
Abhivardhan Founder, Indic Pacific
Lucas Chu Founding Architect, HF0
Gordon Seidoh Worley Director of Research, Phenomenological AI Safety Research Institute
Barbara Anna Zielonka Educator, Nannestad vgs
Saeed K. Al Dhaheri Director, Center of Futures Studies, University of Dubai
Paul Prinsloo Professor Extraordinaire, University of South Africa (Unisa)
Sophia Steen Analyst, Alignmint
Nikita Yampolski Co-Founder, CTO & CPO, One Mental Hub
Simon Bramwell Facilitator, X-AEGIS
Adrian Brown Chief Executive, Windfall Trust
Olaf Witkowski Director, Cross Labs
Karl Markus Villemson Grant Funding and Project Manager, H2Electro
Joe Cozens Teacher of AI & Transformation, University of Oxford
Henry Ward AI Engineer, Freelance
Aleksandr Popov
Dr Hadyn Williams Fmr CEO British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, Executive Consultant
Christos Theodoropoulos AI Solutions Architect, Qity
Cristiano De Mei Writer and AI expert, Fideuram
Laura Maria Kull Co-Director, Effective Altruism Estonia
James Wilson Global AI Ethicist, Capgemini
Alvaro Sanchez, PhD Physicist and AI safety researcher, Independent Researcher
Tara Steele Director, The Safe AI for Children Alliance
Erik Arnberg CEO, Vocitas AB
Raja Chatila Professor Emeritus, Sorbonne University, Paris
Roberto Cerina Assistant Professor in Social and Humane AI, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam
Pauline Delorme UX Strategist, Softeam
Roberto Cerina Assistant Professor in Social and Humane AI, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam
Dr Michael Strange Researcher, Malmö University
Izolda Dr. Takacs International lawyer, Norwegian Centre for Human Right
Jochen Dullenkopf CEO, RevenueWings - Online Marketing Solutions Inc.
David Manheim Director of Policy and Research, Alter.org.il
Roland Millare, STD Vice President of Curriculum, Director of Clergy Initiatives, St. John Paul II Foundation
Corinne Thomas AI Commercial Adoption & Governance, Ethical Sales Ltd
Irina Monica Buruiană Systemic Designer and Psychologist, Ultreiacamino
Sheila Pinheiro Nainkin Head of Fractional Fraud and Risk, Pinheirorisk.com
Rafael Gold Founding Partner, The Israeli Association for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence
Ilia Grom Member of the Administrative Council, Art-Labyrinth
Erich Mische CEO, SAVE-Suicide Awareness Voices of Education
Alain Létourneau Professor, practical philosophy, Université de Sherbrooke
Max Blair Associate Principal Oboe, Pittsburgh Symphony
Ryan Davis Founder & CEO, People First
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Peter A. Jensen CEO, SAFE AI Forever Inc.
Elena Gallina Artist, E Gallina Art
Laurens Martens Senior Art Director, AKQA
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Philip Trippenbach Strategy Director, Seismic Foundation
Martin Quinson Professor, ENS Rennes
Dirk Friedrich Founder, Five Intelligences Alliance
Tomas Prajzler CEO, Talentor CZ
Rufo Guerreschi President, Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI
David Sachs Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Octavian M. Machidon Assistant professor, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science
Daniel Girshovich Human, TFH
Julia da Rocha Junqueira PHD Student, UFRGS
Bernhard Braun Scientific Associate, Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute Germany
Remmelt Ellen Coordinator, AI Safety Camp
Rolland Lucas Owner / Business Analyst, BrixTec Web Soutions
Luka Stevanovic Software Engineer, Connect The Dots
Kaarel Hänni AI Safety Researcher, Independent
Lucas E. Wall CEO & Founder, Almma.AI
Dino Lortie
Steven Potaczek Professor of Commercial Music, Samford University
Gordon Montgomery Researcher, Sofia.edu
Ann Bender Dalhäll Owner, Northbound group
Jordan Panayotov Founder, Creator of The Panayotov Matrix, superior tool which ensures that AI systems are truly Human-Centric, fully inline with The Pro-Human Declaration, Independent Centre for Analysis & Research of Economies
Svilen Kondakov Substitute Teacher
Ariel Agor Operational Ontologist, Agor AI Advisory
Dr. Martin Dinov CTO, Maaind/Lifefire
Piotr Sankowski Director, IDEAS Research Institute
Jennifer Gibson Executive Director, Psst.org
Joseph Gelfer Organiser, Our Fair Future
James Norris Founder & Executive Director, Center for Existential Safety
Marie Lotto
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Dr Michael Hall Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Winchester
Dr. Lovkush Agarwal Research Manager, MATS
Gianluca Bontempi Professor of Machine Learning, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jaedon Satchell AI Developer, Cognizant
Tobias Fritz Assistant Professor, University of Innsbruck
Jeremiah Wesley Templeman Harding Postgraduate, London School of Economics and Political Science
Peter Joyce MD & CAIO, Grand Challenge AI
José González Artist, José González
Chris Scammell CEO, Buddhism & AI Initiative
Torbjörn Lundh Professor, Chalmers University of Technology
Steven Engler Professor of Religious Studies, Mount Royal University
Kyle Kahl Healer
Rabbi Daniel Levin Senior Rabbi, Temple Beth El of Boca Raton
David S Snyder, M.D. Retired Physician, City of Hope Cancer Center
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Patricia Palmer Retired legal marketing director
Elena Chirila Commercial Director, B+N Integrated Facility Services
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Mark Andrew Kordic Podcast Host, Advancing Your Vision
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Joshua Kauffman Founder, Wisdom VC
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John Mason
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Karl von Wendt Writer, Independent
Armando di Matteo Researcher, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino
Naiyarah Hussain Co-founder, AI Safety UAE
Jovin Cronin-Wilesmith Partner, Celium Group
Alexandre Ngau AI Strategy Consultant, Sia
Emily Boddy Co-Lead, Smartphone Free Childhood US
Mateusz Bagiński Researcher, AFFINE
Rabbi Josh Feigelson President & CEO, Institute for Jewish Spirituality
Antonis Polykratis Software Engineer
Andrew Shanahan Editor, Future of Life Institute
Faheem Salman Yunus CTO & Co founder, Nuvint Dynamics
Olin Thakur Co-Founder, Techplomacy Foundation
Vicente Pinto Citizen, TorchBearer Comunnity
Harish Mehta Chairman, Onward
Lesaun Harvey Founder, Technological Liberty, inc
Krystal Jackson Non-Resident Research Fellow, UC Berkeley, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
Robert Rand Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago
Dr. Joseph Thornton Candidate, Thornton for Florida House District 10
Allan Brooks Community Manager, The Human Line Project
Shantanu Ghosh, Ph.D. Professor, Amity University
Sreejith Sreedharan Author - Future of Work, Future of Work AI Labs
Paul Hebert Founder, AI Recovery Collective
Adrian A CTO, PT. Ksatria Mitra S
Rabbi Neal Gold Founder and Director, A Tree with Roots
Pedro Ávila Lecturer, Columbia University
Aiden Kim Researcher, Center for AI Safety
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Jose Cesar ‘Zeca’ Martins Leader, Derrubando Muros
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Charbel-Raphael Segerie Executive Director, CeSIA - French Center for AI Safety
Tunde Aideyan, PhD Instructor, Northeastern University
JB Herrera Founder/CEO, SynergiAI
Brendan O’Donoghue Managing Director, Artificial Observer Limited
Aidar Toktargazin Student, Nazarbayev University
Matteo Mastracci Senior Legal Officer, Italian Ministry of Education and Merit
Dr. Luiza Jarovsky CEO, AI, Tech & Privacy Academy
Xavier de Souza Briggs Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Jake Hirsch-Allen Public AI Fellow and Director Partnerships and Advocacy, The Dais
Karine Landry Teacher, Cégep de Valleyfield
Matthew Prewitt President, RadicalxChange Foundation
Karl Berzins President, FAR.AI
Timothy O’Donnell Professor, McGill University
Dr. Sian Tsuei Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC
Samuel Robson Student, UC Berkeley
The Pro-Human AI Declaration Supplemental Statement
AFL-CIO Tech Institute | March 4, 2026
The AFL-CIO Tech Institute supports the spirit of the Principles of the Pro-Human AI Declaration, shares the conviction that AI must serve people, not the reverse, and affirms the need for:
- Keeping Humans in Charge
- Avoiding Concentration of Power
- Protecting the Human Experience
- Human Agency and Liberty
- Responsibility and Accountability for AI Companies
Additionally, we believe that work is an essential element of human dignity, and must be central to any policy debate around AI. The AFL-CIO’s AI Principles center workers and ensure that the benefits of new technologies are widely shared and do not lead to dangerous, discriminatory and anti-worker outcomes. It is important that we do not concede to the notion that AI adoption is inevitable. We must recognize the limitations that exist for this technology, which does not supersede the knowledge, experience, and hands-on work required for many private and public sector jobs. Workers must have a hand in shaping when and how the technology is developed and deployed to ensure that it improves society, delivers public benefits, and does not lead to the displacement of workers. As rapid technological change is poised to define the future of millions of jobs, it is essential that federal, state, and local leaders champion policies that:
- Strengthen labor rights and broaden opportunities for collective bargaining
- Advance guardrails against harmful uses of AI in the workplace
- Support and promote copyright and intellectual property protections
- Develop a worker-centered workforce development and training system
- Institutionalize worker voice within AI R&D
- Require transparency and accountability in AI applications
- Model best practices for AI use with government procurement
- Protect workers’ civil rights and uphold democratic integrity
The AFL-CIO has adopted principles for fair, safe, responsible and worker-centered AI. We choose a future where progress and opportunity benefit everyone, and where AI isn’t used against us or to weaken the protections that a fair and thriving democracy demands.