Filter, Focus, Meet, Talk, and Take Action

Stay out of the headlights

In recent weeks, AI has been everywhere in the news. Lab leaders calling for a slowdown. A researcher resigning with a warning. And just this week the UN Security Council talking AI governance, with the most black and white sound bites shared broadly. It is easy to get caught in the headlights, and stay there.

If you missed the details:

• Dario Amodei published “We Must Pace the Frontier”, calling for a slower, more accountable rollout of the biggest models.
• Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk backed his call.
• Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, chipped in too, with a warning of his own on the risk of treating AI systems as if they might be conscious, building on what Bill Gates had flagged a bit earlier in his own essay on what he calls a turbulent AI era.
• Jacob Coxon, a researcher who spent three years in pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned from Anthropic and posted that neither company is acting responsibly, that they are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.
• On 23 September, the UN Security Council was briefed by OpenAI, Anthropic and AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio on AI and international security. See the meeting online, in full detail.

We believe it is important to turn down the noise, add filters and look through the fog. How? By paying attention to the good forces pitching in, and convening your peers to discuss and take action. Even small steps. Why care? Because it is not decided yet. Possible pathways towards good are emerging.

We want to point your attention to two things: the people moving forward, and what you can do.

The people moving forward

Good people and organisations are laying out pathways: pro-human AI, proposals for AI governance, ways to make it work. It is less dramatic than the headlines. It is clever, and if you ask us, it is going to work.

The Pro-Human Assembly

You need to know about the AI assembly that was held in Washington D.C. on 15 September: prohumanassembly.org

A historic meeting, by the people behind the Declaration: a gathering of resources, people and networks, sharing their work and inviting people to take action. Speakers included Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin of Center for Humane Technology, alongside Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon, a gathering across political lines. Watch the recordings of what they introduced, and how they are framing what we can already do, safely. And how they announced the AI coalition, prohumanai.co, a wider, newer effort building on the Declaration.

The Pro-Human AI Declaration

You need to know about the Pro-Human AI Declaration. A set of 33 principles, agreed across a coalition that spans labour unions, faith leaders, and researchers who normally compete with each other for funding, on where AI should not go. It was made in early 2026, updated 15 September, and as this ink dries, 1,292,499 people have signed it: humanstatement.org

We are writing up a full summary of it ourselves, with a visual for each of the five categories and each of the 33 items. Stay tuned.

The Future of Life Institute

You also need to know there is a growing resource base and inspiration for action. From complexity you find clarity. With clarity comes agency. The Future of Life Institute, as an organisation, has published the Pro-Human Path for AI: prohumanpath.ai, their case for Tool AI, Human-Empowering AI, and Trustworthy AI, with a plan for how to get there.

Center for Humane Technology

Center for Humane Technology (humanetech.com) is a significant NGO with a long legacy in the field. They have published two key pieces: “Preserving What Makes Us Deeply Human in the Age of AI” and “The AI Roadmap: How We Ensure AI Serves Humanity”. Building on the AI Roadmap, we have made a visual dialogue tool to support conversations around it. Reach out if you want a version.

What you can do

All the above points to action. Here’s our take on where to start:

• Sign the Pro-Human AI Declaration at humanstatement.org.
• Watch The AI Doc, which had its global premiere on Netflix and Prime this month. Watch it with family, friends, or colleagues, and use the discussion guide for a focused conversation.
• Read the Pro-Human Path for AI and the AI Roadmap from Center for Humane Technology.
• Get together with your peers. Start talking, seek knowledge, find clarity, and take a step.
• Use visual tools to focus your AI clarity dialogues.