AI Safety Lobbying Workshop: Fight for an AI Treaty!

​Want to have a say in your future?

​AI companies don't want you to! They are racing to build ever more powerful systems that they do not understand and cannot control. Current harms abound, mass job loss looms, and most leading AI experts say this could even lead to human extinction. Hundreds of top experts and other prominent figures are now demanding a global ban on creating artificial superintelligence, at least until it can be made safely and the public are actually on board. (You can sign the statement too!!)

​At its most basic, lobbying just means letting your political representatives know what you care about. It can sound intimidating, but you'll be shocked at how easy it is! This event will help get you over that hump. Join us to send some emails, make some calls (just to voicemail!), and chat with us about how you can make a genuine difference, today and going forward!

​What to bring:

​All you need is your phone!

​(You can optionally bring a tablet or laptop if you want to write an email from scratch and you'd rather use those screens to do it. But you really only need your phone.)

​The tools we'll be using:

​https://www.pauseai-us.org/ai-treaty OR https://www.pauseai-us.org/RiskEvalAct
Just enter your details, and it will automatically identify your two federal senators and your federal representative!

• ​Email Tool: It will give you an email that you can edit and personalize if you want. When you're ready, hit "Send message", and that's it!

• ​Phone Tool: Hit "Call". The system will call you, and patch you through to each of the three DC congressional offices! Just hit star (*) between each call in place of hanging up, until the end. It even gives you a suggested script! If you do this in the evening (Eastern Time), you'll always go to voicemail. (And note that even if you hit the voicemail time limit or screw up, you can always re-record by silently waiting and then pressing 4.)

​Feel free to follow that link and reach out to your federal congresspersons even if you can't show up in person! The event is just so that we can be productive together and support each other.