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Most of the money in AI safety still goes to labs and technical research that treat superintelligence as inevitable. Almost none of it funds the political work of making sure superintelligence is never built. We do that work, and only that work: a binding international treaty, public pressure, and the attention campaign that makes the treaty possible. We take no money from AI laboratories or their investors.
Technical AI safety already commands the field's money and its brightest people, and for all that effort no one has shown how to reliably control a system far smarter than the humans who build it. Assuming controlling an entity far smarter than us is even solvable, it will most certainly not be solved in time. The only protection left is the choice not to build such systems until they can be made safe. That choice is political, and it is badly underfunded.
A gift here pays for the missing piece. Not another paper on how to control a mind smarter than its builders. Staff, organizers, X replies that actually meet the race slogans where they land, content lawmakers and creators see, and the long push to move philanthropy toward prevention. Dollar for dollar, that is where the next dollar lowers extinction risk the most.
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The point of a gift is its effect, and a dollar's effect is not the same everywhere. So the honest question is not whether a cause is good, only whether this is the best available use of the next dollar. Take that question seriously and everything else follows from it.
The highest-impact causes are the ones that reach everyone, and everyone who comes after. A threat to the entire human future outweighs any bounded problem, because what it puts at stake is not one generation but every generation that could ever follow.
Of the technologies that could end humanity, artificial superintelligence sits at the top. By the best structured estimates available, it carries something on the order of a hundred times the extinction risk of nuclear war, and it is the only one that improves itself and acts against every countermeasure we raise.
Technical safety research already commands the field's money and its best minds, and still no one can control a system far smarter than us. The underfunded work is the other kind: the binding, verified international agreement that prevents superintelligence from being built until it can be made safe. We are narrowly focused on that one thing, not on the research that already exists.
The most impactful thing you can fund is preventing superintelligence, and the most neglected part of that is the political fight to make it law. That is exactly where your gift goes, and why a dollar here is, dollar for dollar, among the highest-impact gifts you can make.
Fund the mission →Every dollar is meant for the administrative, technical, and labor costs of the programs below. We would rather show you the line items than ask you to trust a mission statement. We will measure progress with data and publish the numbers.
We need funding as soon as possible for a full-time social media person whose job is to find and reply to posts on X about the “ASI race,” “Singularity,” “winning the AI race,” “ASI,” and “superintelligence.” That work is not being done today. Race slogans land every hour with no careful counter in the thread.
Why X. It is the number-one social platform for the world’s most influential people: lawmakers, journalists, lab leaders, and the accounts they read. Social media is now a primary news source for many of those lawmakers. A single well-placed reply can reach millions of impressions. That is awareness we cannot buy with another white paper.
Your money pays for an X Organization account (verified, trusted, able to post at volume), the wages of the person writing and replying every day, and the training that inducts them into the mission and our content guidelines. The goal is simple: no high-visibility race post goes unanswered, and our own feed posts the case for prevention without pause.
Measurable output: impressions and reach on replies and original posts (public analytics once the account is live).
Short and long form writing, images, infographics, and video: original work about superintelligence made so a non-specialist can follow it in one sitting. Made once, then pushed across every platform we can reach. Plus paid placement where opinion actually forms.
This is not another white paper for people already inside the field. It is creative work that meets people where they already are: explainers, essays, visuals, and film-adjacent storytelling that make the stakes legible without a technical background.
Sponsor specialized newsletters that lawmakers and their staff already open. Sponsor podcasts those same people listen to on the drive in. Sponsor content creators with real audiences. People form their views from creators. Look at who is posting about ASI as an existential risk today: almost nobody with reach. That is like living through the Cold War while almost no one with a microphone talks about preventing nuclear war. Filling that silence is the cheap way to make the threat legible before a treaty vote is even scheduled, not vanity.
Your money pays for the people who make the original work, creator and newsletter sponsorships, podcast underwriting, verified social accounts, and the tools that distribute it so hours go into the argument rather than the posting queue.
Measurable output: views and watch time on original pieces, plus placement reach where we sponsor distribution.
We have already begun finding people who can do this work. One lesson came quickly: a single video has taken months to finish. That is too slow. The race keeps moving while a film sits in the queue.
A video should not take months.
Money here pays to put more of those people on the work at once.
Measurable output: time from start to publish on original pieces.
Under consideration, not yet funded
A lot of talk, and a lot of philanthropy, still goes to alignment: technical research aimed at making future superintelligence go well. Name what “solve alignment” would actually mean. It means reliably controlling something far more intelligent than we are. It is in the name: superintelligence. Betting the species on controlling a mind smarter than every human who built it is a dumb plan, and on the evidence we have, an impossible one.
The ambitious use of donor money is paid staff whose job is to meet grantmakers and advisors, make the case to redirect scarce safety capital toward treaty, verification, and public pressure, and do that work in the rooms where the money is already pledged. Not another paper in that pile.
Narrow-system safety that can actually be controlled still deserves funding. Research that assumes we will build a successor species and then leash it does not. Leaders in effective altruism once redirected philanthropy toward malaria nets by making this kind of case. If we take the same route on superintelligence, we will say so before we ask for the extra dollars.
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