Message Wall
Voices From Around The World
Real people. Real concerns. One shared belief: AI should serve humanity, not replace it.
The Problem
AI is developing too rapidly for humanity to stay in control. AI could be the best thing that ever happens to humanity. It could also be the last. A handful of companies are locked in an arms race, building the most powerful technology in human history as fast as they possibly can, with no oversight, no democratic accountability, and, by their own admission, without fully understanding what they’re building.
How Many Questions Do We Face?
How many jobs have to vanish? How much of the internet has to be fake? How many creators have to be buried under AI slop? How many artists have to compete with copies of themselves? How many scams and deepfakes? How many elections undermined? How many kids have to grow up shaped by algorithms no parent chose? How close do we get to surveillance dystopias, AI-designed pandemics, killer robots? Or, as experts keep warning, literal human extinction? This situation is insane. And we all know it.
The Plan
Slow down. Give humanity time to figure out how to stay in control. The root cause of all these dangers is the global AI arms race, which creates a race-to-the-bottom on safety and doesn’t give humanity time to figure out how to regulate it effectively.
The Root Cause
Many regulations are harmful or unhelpful. We need humanity’s best and brightest working on this, but it could take years to get the regulations right. In TeamSeas, the goal was cleaning up beaches. Then we discovered most of the ocean’s trash came from just three rivers. If we didn’t address the root cause, the beaches would just get dirty again. Most proposed AI regulation is cleaning the beaches. The arms race is the river. If you’re driving 100 mph in fog, and you think there’s a cliff somewhere ahead, you slow down. That’s common sense. That’s what we need to do with AI.
The Solution
We demand one thing: slow down AI. We join the hundreds of Nobel Prize winners, AI experts, and heads of state who signed the Superintelligence Statement, calling for a prohibition on developing smarter-than-human AI until there is 1) broad scientific consensus that it can be done safely and controllably, and 2) strong public buy-in.
How It Gets Done
Build the brakes by tracking and guarding specialized chips just like nukes and bioweapons. Enforce the speed limit through an international agreement between the US, China, and major nations with an IAEA-style watchdog for AI. All four leading AI companies agree things may be going too fast and would slow down if others did, but none can stop unilaterally. That’s what governments are for, and governments won’t act without public pressure. That’s where we come in. We are the pressure.