Frontier AI Staff Collaborative Safety Call
Please join our collaborative safety call for current and former staff at frontier AI companies to discuss AI risks, AI risk mitigation strategies, AI governance, and hopes and fears for the future.
This will be an informal, private, and peer-to-peer conversation amongst fellow current and former staff across different companies.
You don't have to prepare anything to attend, nor do you need to speak yourself. You can choose to just listen in.
If you choose, please share this event widely with fellow frontier AI staff. See X post.
Why attend?
AI development and its impact on society is accelerating extremely rapidly, far surpassing the predictions of many experts. Many are now forecasting that we will have full RSI within months, which may lead to human extinction shortly afterward.
Frontier AI staff currently hold more power than almost anyone in human history. Your actions today are more consequential than the actions of 99.99% of people who have ever lived. A dialogue for exploring and updating worldviews might be exceptionally valuable for you personally, as well as for the rest of the world.
Note your power and influence may be eliminated or highly curtailed in a few days, weeks, or months. This is plausible through a variety of means: if RSI is achieved and staff are replaced, civilization collapses, injunctions or criminal lawsuits are filed, an authoritarian takeover occurs, MAIM espionage or warfare occurs and development is crippled, protestors block you from working, etc.
Who should attend?
Any current or former staff from frontier AI companies in the US, China, or any other nation around the world. For example, Alibaba, Anthropic, Deepseek, Google DeepMind, Meta, Mistral, Moonshot, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and zAI. You are free to self-select to attend.
Please register with a personal or anonymous email as opposed to your work email. Registration is approved manually. To confirm your company affiliation, when registering include your personal website or LinkedIn or email us at hello@existentialsafety.org. We maintain 100% confidentiality.
If senior leaders want us to arrange a separate call just for you, please reach out to hello@existentialsafety.org with your scheduling calendars (or a message you want us to privately share to other leaders on your behalf). We believe you could galvanize a win-win agreement that protects and massively benefits all life on Earth, if you choose.
Can I participate anonymously?
We require participants honor the Chatham House Rule. Do not share the identity of anything said by any participant. Do not mention who attended the call. If you'd like, you can use a pseudonym, keep your camera off, use a voice synthesizer, and/or just text.
Who is organizing this?
The Center for Existential Safety is organizing this call. We have run similar calls for 100+ leaders of existential safety organizations. Our central aim is to catalyze collective action to ensure humanity survives this decade. If we can achieve that, then we are likely to create an unimaginably good future for all.
Our founder started in this broad space in 1998 and has dedicated his life to ensuring the Singularity would be net positive for humanity. He was one of the first whistleblowers in AI safety, after helping to popularize the field by launching Effective Altruism Global in 2015. He has professionally coached for 15+ years and will facilitate the call. He lives off-grid already due to these foreseeable short-term risks.
Rules
Be truthful
Be kind
Be collaborative
Respect privacy
Agenda
Optional brief introductions of your background in AI (<30 seconds each)
Open discussion in full group (20-40 minutes)
Private discussion in small breakout groups (remaining time)
Afterwards
After the call, you’re welcome to join our Discord to keep the conversation going. The AI Staff channel is private and only for verified current and former frontier AI company staff. To access it, message our team once you’ve joined the Discord and mention you attended this call. Pseudonyms are welcome.