Take action

The group of people who are aware of AI risks is still small. You are now one of them. So your actions matter more than you think. Here are some examples of what you can do.

Inform others

• Share about AI risk on social media. This website might be a good start.
• Create articles , videos or memes
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• Talk to people in your life about this. Answer their questions, and get them to act. Use our counterarguments to help you be more persuasive.
• Tabling and flyering are great ways to reach many people in a short amount of time.

Inform politicians

• Send an email to a politician : emails are completely overpowered. Try to convince your government to work towards a pause and prepare for the summit . Here are some lobby tips .
• Protest: join one of the protests or organize one yourself .
• Sign petitions: International AI Treaty
  , Ban Superintelligence
  , Demand responsible AI
  , or one of the national petitions: UK
  , AUS
  , NL

Join the movement

• Join or create a local community or event .
• Join the PauseAI Discord
  , where most of the collaboration happens.
• If you want to volunteer, fill out this form
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• Donate to PauseAI or buy some merchandise in our store
  .
• Follow our social media channels
  and stay updated,

If you…

If you are a politician or work in government

• Prepare for the next AI safety summit . Form coalitions with other countries. Work towards a global treaty.
• Invite (or subpoena) AI lab leaders to parliamentary/congressional hearings to give their predictions and timelines of AI disasters.
• Establish a committee to investigate the risks of AI .
• Make AI safety a priority in your party’s platform, your government’s policy, or just make sure it’s on the agenda.

If you know (international) law

• Help draft policy. Draft examples
  . (some
  frameworks
  )
• Make submissions to government requests for comment on AI policy (example
  ).

If you work in AI

• Don’t work towards superintelligence. If you have some cool idea on how we can make AI systems 10x faster, please don’t build it / spread it / talk about it. We need to slow down AI development, not speed it up.
• Talk to your management and colleagues about the risks. Get them to take an institutional position on this.
• Hold a seminar on AI safety at your workplace. Check out the videos for inspiration.
• Sign the Statement on AI Risk
  .