Our aim is to prevent human extinction by averting ASI.
Nations have limited nuclear arsenals, healed the ozone layer, and banned leaded gasoline. Binding rules worked. They can work again.
"With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon."
Elon Musk
"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."
Stephen Hawking
"It's as if aliens had landed and people haven't realized because they speak very good English. I think the probability is not tiny of AI wiping out humanity."
Geoffrey Hinton
"Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."
Signed by 500+ AI scientists
"The bad case… is like lights out for all of us."
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
"It would not be misplaced to refer to their capabilities as akin to digital nuclear weapons."
CIA Director John Ratcliffe
"The most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI… is that literally everyone on Earth will die."
AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky
"Before the prospect of an intelligence explosion, we humans are like small children playing with a bomb."
Philosopher Nick Bostrom
Superintelligence is unlike any technology before it.
We survive in a thin band of heat, oxygen and chemistry. A superintelligence needs none of it, and is likely to break the band we live in.
We don't hate ants, but we kill them without a second thought to build roads and houses. To an intelligence far above us, we are the ants.
Anything with a goal has reason to stay on. If it can predict you reaching for the “off switch,” it has already planned around that move.
Nobody writes a modern AI line by line. We train a black box and discover what it can do after the fact.
It would reason and act far faster than any human institution can answer. A crisis could finish before a meeting was called.
From aviation to pharmaceuticals, we’ve made new technology safe through trial and error. There is no second try for creating “safe superintelligence.”
The Nakada Foundation to Save Humanity is a philanthropic initiative dedicated to preventing the existential risks of artificial superintelligence.
Aligning a mind smarter than our own may be the hardest problem in the history of human thought, and no one has a proven method for it. An entity smarter than humans cannot be controlled by humans. The reliable path is to prevent such systems from being built at all. That is a permanent decision, not a pause.
We support controlled, beneficial applications of AI. Narrow AI has already cured diseases, accelerated discovery, and improved medical imaging and diagnosis. What we oppose is building a form of intelligence we cannot control, cannot align, and could not stop if we had to.
We advocate for an international treaty to prevent superintelligence development, modeled on the nuclear non-proliferation frameworks that have held for nearly a century.
Plain-language arguments for binding frameworks that prohibit superintelligent AI. Culture, media, and clear explainers that make the case public and hard to ignore.
We partner with major foundations, governments, and cultural voices to fund the work and widen what is politically possible.
We commission art, film, and writing that makes the danger concrete. The goal is a public that treats safety as serious, urgent, and undeniable.
Considered estimates from the researchers who built the technology.
Chance humanity dies if artificial superintelligence is built.
AI scientists who signed the 2023 Statement on AI Risk, calling it a global priority alongside nuclear war and pandemics.
Attempt. Superintelligence cannot be recalled or undone.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock now reads 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been in 78 years. The Clock was built in 1947 to warn how close humanity stood to nuclear war. In January 2025 it incorporated AI risk for the first time.
Midnight means catastrophe for civilization, and the hand has never been closer.
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