Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI
Only by Coming Together like Never Before Will Humanity Turn Artificial Intelligence into its Greatest Invention
Many AI scientists believe we may be a few years or one algorithmic innovation away from AI capabilities that will materialize immense risks for human safety, loss of control or unaccountable concentration of power and wealth.
The Coalition aims to bring together pioneering NGOs and states to build a bold, federal, global intergovernmental organization for Artificial Intelligence, while resiliently affirming the subsidiarity principle - akin to the bold 1946 Baruch Plan.
To succeed, it is paramount that treaty-making process leading up to it will be sufficiently bold, effective, open, timely and democratic to reliably manage its immense risks, and realize and equitably share its astounding opportunities.
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What is the Baruch Plan?
As a global race was raging to build ever more powerful nuclear bombs, on June 14, 1946, the United States proposed to the United Nations the Baruch Plan: a bold solution to create a new global agency to bring under exclusive international control all dangerous research, arsenals, facilities and supply chain for nuclear weapons and energy - and then all other weapons of mass destruction.
A Baruch Plan for AI?
Current AI governance initiatives by super powers, IGOs and the UN are severely insufficient in scope, timeliness, inclusivity and participation. Nothing less than a Baruch Plan for AI can reliably tackle AI’s immense risks for human safety and for unaccountable concentration of power and wealth, and realize its astounding potential. Awareness of this need is mounting: some of the most influential AI experts and leaders have referred to the Baruch Plan as a model for AI governance, including Yoshua Bengio, the most cited AI scientist, Ian Hogarth, (UK AI Safety Institute), Allan Dafoe (Google DeepMind), Jack Clark, (Anthropic), Jaan Tallinn, (Future of Life Institute), and Nick Bostrom.
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Only by Coming Together like Never Before can we Ensure a Safe and Fair AI Future.
A Better Treaty-Making Method
To avoid the failure of the Baruch Plan, avert a veto-based deadlock, and ensure timeliness, effectiveness and participation, the treaty-making process we envision is based on the intergovernmental constituent assembly model, such as the one pioneered in 1786 when one US state convened five more in the Annapolis Convention, ultimately culminating in the ratification of the US federal constitution in 1787.
Join Us
We invite you and/or your organization to join us to tackle head-on the greatest challenge of our time, including by participating in our hybrid 2nd Pre-Summit on September 27th and our 1st Harnessing AI Risk Summit on November 20-21st, both in hybrid mode in Geneva: