A binding international treaty can save humanity while continuing technological progress.
We are a philanthropic campaign against systems that exceed human intelligence and cannot be corrected or stopped. Humanity must never build a superintelligence.
A singular system intentionally grown to exceed and replace human capabilities across every single domain is dangerous. Artificial superintelligence is the number-one risk to humanity, greater than global thermonuclear war. Nuclear war can end civilization and leave survivors. A superintelligence will extinguish our species.
We model our work on proven concepts that moved the world, such as the public pressure campaigns and international treaties on chemical weapons, nuclear non-proliferation and the ozone layer.
We are completely independent and take no money from AI labs, their investors, or firms whose profits depend on racing the frontier.
Media is a powerful tool for shaping opinion and creating a culture that makes the crisis hard to ignore. It influences the voting public and the minds of the leaders we elect. When Ronald Reagan watched the 1983 film The Day After, the abstract concept of a nuclear war became a concrete one, and the President later signed a binding treaty with the Soviet Union to reduce the nuclear stockpile.
There are many organizations working on a "safer race" or a "safe transition." We are one of the handful urgently working to stop ASI under binding law. The "transition" must never happen.
We are not an "anti-AI" organization as we support controlled, beneficial narrow AI, such as ones that diagnose cancer and speed drug discovery. Such systems exceed human capability in only one domain, allowing us to safely manage its work to benefit humanity.
Our foundation is exclusively focused on the prevention of ASI. We do the public work that makes a binding international treaty possible: commissioning films, videos, essays, images and relationships with cultural leaders. We also aim to shift talent and financing from alignment research to ASI prevention.
We do not do technical research, policy analysis, or lobbying.
We also don't take positions on general AI topics such as chatbots, job automation, military drones, or data-centers.
We are a US based philanthropic association. As of August 2026, we are currently undergoing the fiscal sponsorship process to become 501(c)(3) eligible. All donations will then be tax deductible.
We are assembling a small advisory board. We are particularly seeking those with experience in public interest communication, fundraising and cultural production.
Achieving a significant impact is one of our foremost goals. Our outputs are public and measurable, such as impressions on X and views on YouTube videos, and track that against sentiment of the voting public.
Naoto Nakada would have funded nuclear treaty work during the Cold War. Our founder views superintelligence as today's existential crisis.
After decades of AI safety research, the conclusion is that we cannot control something smarter than us, while most money in the field still goes toward "safer" frontier systems while they still get built. Stopping artificial superintelligence before it exists is still critically underfunded and underdiscussed, with only seven organizations in the world exclusively focused on preventing ASI.
We launched the foundation in response to that gap, with a striking name that makes the urgency and gravity of the threat unmistakable.
The human story has just begun. We must ensure it endures for eons to come.
Naoto Nakada
No. We support useful narrow AI: systems that do a job and can be corrected. We work to prevent artificial superintelligence, systems whose open-ended capability puts them in a different category. A smartphone, the internet, even a nuclear plant can be regulated and shut down. A superintelligence cannot.
We are singular. We work on artificial superintelligence and the cultural work that makes a treaty against it possible. Chatbot bias, job loss from automation, deepfakes, military drones, data-center siting: those may matter elsewhere. They are not this foundation's work. If a question is not about preventing ASI, it sits outside this foundation.
The most common objection is the same shape of argument used against nuclear non-proliferation. The NPT is imperfect and it still worked: no nuclear use in war since 1945, nine nuclear states when hundreds could have joined. Defection risk is a reason for verification, not a reason to sprint. Frontier training still runs through a short list of chipmakers. Monitoring a compute threshold is a political problem more than a physics problem.
Yes. They also have sales teams, investor relations departments, board members who represent shareholders, and competitive pressure to ship products faster than their rivals. Safety teams inside commercial AI labs answer to the same incentives as the rest of the company, and those incentives reward shipping capability over reducing risk. When OpenAI's safety team published concerns about moving too fast, the company moved faster anyway. At best an internal team complements external regulation. It cannot stand in for it.
The Turing Award winner Geoffrey Hinton, who spent his career building the foundations of modern AI, estimates a 10 to 20 percent chance that AI causes human extinction within the century. Nobel laureate Yoshua Bengio has stated publicly that the risk is real and underappreciated. The Center for AI Safety's 2023 statement, signed by over 500 AI scientists including Sam Altman, placed AI extinction risk alongside nuclear war and pandemics as a global priority.
Join the Foundation. Share our message with people who haven't heard it. Contact your elected representative and ask what their position is on AI risk and what legislation they are supporting. If you have financial resources, consider donating to the Foundation or to one of the six other organizations working on ASI prevention. If you have cultural or media influence, use it. If you work inside an AI laboratory and have concerns, consider speaking publicly. Political will decides this, and it comes from people like you.
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