"Existential AI safety needs an effective social movement. PauseAI is building it" by Maxime Fournes, Espedair Street
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"Existential AI safety needs an effective social movement. PauseAI is building it" by Maxime Fournes, Espedair Street
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This post was written by Matilda da Rui and Maxime Fournes, with significant contributions from Benjamin Schmidt (PauseAI Germany co-lead).
Executive Summary
The existential AI safety community needs to take building a civic and social movement seriously as a core intervention. We believe this is a high-value, badly neglected approach to reducing catastrophic/x-risks from AI because it may significantly enhance the likelihood of governance efforts succeeding at keeping humanity safe. As far as we can tell, only one organisation is building this infrastructure across continents: PauseAI. This post lays out our reasoning and our track record, and makes the case that funding this work is one of the highest value-for-money contributions available to anyone looking to reduce AI risk.
Why don't we already have a pause or strong controls on frontier AI? Multiple advocacy groups are communicating clear and convincing arguments for AI existential risk, and policy experts are putting forward comprehensive proposals. We need more of this work, but this work alone will not be enough, because one link is missing: what policymakers hear doesn't align with [...]
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Outline:
(00:32) Executive Summary
(06:16) Introduction
(08:54) I. Our theory of change
(08:58) Prologue
(11:07) 1. The shape of the problem as we see it
(14:27) 2. Necessary conditions for reaching a pause
(17:24) II. Our role towards a global treaty and in the AI safety ecosystem
(17:31) 1. Our niche within the ecosystem
(21:35) 2. Policymakers need strong enough incentives to act
(25:43) 3. The path to a treaty
(31:36) 4. How we can grow fast without breaking
(39:08) 5. Failure modes
(40:10) III. Our path so far and where we're headed
(40:40) 1. Bootstrap phase (2023-2025)
(45:01) 2. New leadership, professionalisation and federation
[... 6 more sections]
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First published:
June 26th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aoqhszdEWqcFWbnda/existential-ai-safety-needs-an-effective-social-movement
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