Ethical AI · AGI Pace
Hit Pause on the Horizon: Slowing the Reckless Race to AGI
Leading AI labs are competing in a hyper-accelerated sprint to build systems that surpass human intelligence. We demand a strategic, global deceleration to audit the profound societal and economic shocks of AGI before deployment.
300M Jobs
At Risk of Cognitive Automation
Advanced cognitive automation is projected to rapidly replace or severely degrade full-time roles across white-collar and blue-collar sectors globally.
$7 Trillion
Concentrated GDP Upside
While AGI capabilities could inject trillions into global GDP, without immediate intervention this wealth will concentrate into a handful of hyper-monopolized tech conglomerates.
80%
Routine Desk Work Automatable
Advanced baseline models already execute cognitive tasks that put 80% of routine corporate desk work — legal review, coding, financial modeling — at risk of immediate automation.
The Threat Architecture
Two failures that turn an AGI sprint into a civilizational gamble.
Total Digital System Fragility
Integrating an autonomous, highly capable AGI into global banking, logistics, and healthcare networks creates extreme systemic risk. A single emergent behavior or algorithmic bug can cascade into a global infrastructure collapse faster than humans can intervene.
The Devaluation of Human Labor
For the first time, automation targets human cognition directly. If white-collar strategy and blue-collar coordination can be executed for pennies, the economic value of human labor plummets, breaking the fundamental social contract.
Our Uncompromising Demands
Three non-negotiables for putting human agency ahead of algorithmic speed.
Mandatory Capability Ceilings
Implement regulatory freezes on training compute models exceeding next-generation threshold caps until safety guarantees are proven.
Global Compute Auditing
Treat massive AI data centers like nuclear material — subject to independent international monitoring and hardware-level kill-switches.
Socio-Economic Shock Testing
Force AI labs to fund and pass exhaustive, independent societal impact assessments detailing how their releases will alter local labor markets before public deployment.
Demand a Strategic Pause on AGI Development
To the Governments of the United States, China, and the European Union: The unrestricted race to build Artificial General Intelligence is an unvetted experiment on human civilization. We demand immediate legislative intervention to mandate a strategic deceleration of frontier AI training models. Human agency must take priority over algorithmic speed.