- PauseAI protest @ The Hague, Netherlands - August 11th
We are organizing a protest to demand a pause on dangerous AI development.
- PauseAI protest @ FCDO, London, July 13th
- PauseAI protest @ FCDO, London, July 18th
- (Cancelled) PauseAI protest @ United Nations, NYC, July 18th
- PauseAI protest @ Office for AI - June 29th
- PauseAI protest @ Parliament Square - June 8th
We are organising a protest at Parliament Square to demand a summit to pause AI development.
- PauseAI protest @ Melbourne - June 16th
Join PauseAI for an upcoming peaceful protest at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) where Sam Altman will be having a talk in Melbourne.
- PauseAI protest @ Google DeepMind - May 19th - 22nd
We are organising a protest at Google DeepMind to demand a summit to pause AI development.
- PauseAI protest @ Bletchley Park - November 1st
We are organising a protest at Bletchley Park, during the AI Safety Summit
- International PauseAI protest 21st October 2023
We are organizing an international protest to demand a pause on dangerous AI development.
- PauseAI / No AGI Protest @ OpenAI San Francisco - February 12th, 2024
We are organizing a protest to demand a pause on dangerous AI development.
- International PauseAI protest May 13th 2024
We are organizing an international protest to demand a pause on dangerous AI development.
- International PauseAI Protest November 2024
We are organizing a protest to demand a pause on dangerous AI development.
- Organizing Director Vacancy at PauseAI Global
PauseAI is looking for an Organizing Director to help manage the organization and support local groups.
- 4 Levels of AI safety regulation
A framework for thinking about how to mitigate the risks from powerful AI systems
- Take action
Ways to help out with pausing AGI development.
- Why an AI takeover could be very likely
As AI surpasses human capabilities, the likelihood of an AI takeover becomes very high.
- Rebutting skeptical arguments about AI existential risks
Why AI existential risks are real and deserve serious attention
- PauseAI protest @ Microsoft Brussels - May 23rd, 2023
We are organizing a protest at Microsoft to demand a summit to pause AI development.
- Building the Pause Button
What would an AI Pause look like? How do you continue to actually prevent a superintelligence from being created?
- Communication Strategy
How we communicate about pausing AI development.
- Counterarguments
A list of reasons why people might disagree with the idea of pausing AI development - and how to respond to them.
- Cybersecurity risks from frontier AI models
How AI could be used to hack all devices.
- Regulating dangerous capabilities in AI
The more powerful AI becomes in specific domains, the larger the risks become. How do we prevent these dangerous capabilities from appearing or spreading?
- AI models are unpredictable digital brains
Nobody understands how AI models work, nobody can predict their behavior, and nobody will be able to control them.
- PauseAI Discord server
Invitation link to PauseAI's Discord server
- Donate to PauseAI
With your financial support we can have a bigger impact.
- Environmental impact of AI
AI's environmental impact is a problem not just because of the immediate human cost, but because robots are fantastically energy-hungry and thus accelerate the unsustainable, insupportable damage we are doing to Earth.
- PauseAI Events
Meetings, workshops, protests, and more!
- FAQ
Frequently asked questions about PauseAI and the risks of superintelligent AI.
- The Feasibility of a Pause
Is pausing AI possible?
- Flyering Guide
How to distribute flyers for PauseAI
- PauseAI Funding & Donors
A list of our largest donors.
- How we grow the PauseAI movement
What's the strategy to grow the PauseAI movement?
- Join PauseAI
Sign up to join the PauseAI movement.
- Learn why AI safety matters
Educational resources (videos, articles, books) about AI risks and AI alignment
- Legal information
Information required by law about PauseAI.
- Tips for effective lobbying
How to convince your government that it needs to work towards a pause on AI training runs
- Running a local PauseAI Community: A Guide to Local Organizing
How can you set up a community and make an impact, locally?
- PauseAI MicroGrants
Our community fund to support projects that align with our mission.
- Pausing AI development might go wrong. How to mitigate the risks?
This article addresses some of the risks of pausing AI development, and how to mitigate them.
- PauseAI National Groups
What does it mean to be a National Group in the PauseAI network?
- PauseAI NYC Action Items
Help stop the acceleration of dangerous AI by taking action!
- PauseAI candlelit vigil @ UN HQ NYC, 3rd of June
- Offense / Defense balance in AI safety
How to think about the balance between offense and defense in AI safety
- San Francisco's 3-Day Picket: Demanding Pause on Advanced AI Development Near OpenAI
- PauseAI Organization
How the PauseAI organization is structured, and what resources are available for members.
- Organizing a PauseAI protest
It's not very hard!
- Partnership Opportunities with PauseAI
Invitation link to PauseAI's Discord server
- Polls & surveys
How much do regular people and experts worry about AI risks and governance?
- PauseAI Press materials & media coverage
- Privacy policy for PauseAI
- PauseAI Proposal
Implement a temporary pause on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4, ban training on copyrighted material, hold model creators liable.
- PauseAI Protesters Code of Conduct
- PauseAI Protests
When and where we will be protesting.
- The difficult psychology of existential risk
Thinking about the end of the world is hard.
- Risks of artificial intelligence
AI threatens our democracy, our technology, and our species.
- PauseAI Roadmap and Funding Scenarios
What are we planning to do and what could we do with more funding?
- Concrete scenarios for catastrophic AI risks
How superintelligent AI could cause human extinction.
- State-of-the-art AI capabilities vs humans
How smart are the latest AI models compared to humans?
- Why we need AI Safety Summits
Why we need the AI safety summit to happen, and what it should achieve.
- Tabling for PauseAI
Set up a table and talk to people about AI risks and why we need to pause.
- Theory of Change
How does PauseAI expect to achieve its mission?
- Timelines to AGI
How long do people expect it will take for AGI or superintelligent AI to be developed?
- PauseAI UN Demonstration
Help us demand immediate global regulation on frontier AI models
- Why we might have superintelligence sooner than most think
We're underestimating the progress of AI, and there is a small but realistic chance that we are very close to a superintelligence.
- US Lobbying Guide
The goal of this guide is to empower people – everyday citizens who lack any background in lobbying or advocacy, but who are concerned about AI – to meet with their elected officials directly and make their concerns heard as effectively as possible.
- Open Volunteer Vacancies for PauseAI
If you want to join PauseAI,
- PauseAI values
How does PauseAI plan to achieve its mission?
- PauseAI Volunteer Stipends
How to apply for a volunteer stipend
- How to write a letter or email to someone in power
A guide on how to write a lobby letter
- Writing press releases for protests
How to be effective at writing a press release to cover a protest.
- The existential risk of superintelligent AI
Why AI is a risk for the future of our existence, and why we need to pause development.
- Teams of PauseAI
What are the various teams at PauseAI?
- People of PauseAI
Who are the volunteers working on PauseAI?
- Quotes
Quotes about risks from artificial intelligence
- List of p(doom) values
How likely do AI various researchers believe AI will cause human extinction?
- PauseAI Local Communities
A map of all the local PauseAI communities and people around the world. Also shows adjacent AI Safety communities.
- Email Builder
A web app to help you write an email to a politician. Convince them to Pause AI!
- AI Outcomes
What will happen if we continue to build AI?