Stop The
AI Race

Asking the CEOs of AI companies to commit to a pause.

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Our Single Demand

Every major AI lab CEO must publicly commit to pausing frontier model development if every other major lab in the world credibly does the same.

Dario Amodei

CEO of Anthropic

"I wish we had 5 to 10 years."
"The thing that keeps me up at night is the incredible market race between top AI companies."
"This is the trap: AI is so powerful, such a glittering prize, that it is very difficult for human civilization to impose any restraints on it at all."

The architects of these systems know the race is reckless. They've warned us about the existential risks themselves, repeatedly. But each argues they can't slow down because they need to beat the others and geopolitical adversaries.

We're not asking anyone to stop alone. Just to say: if the others pause, I will too.

In September 2025, we protested at Google DeepMind with the same demand. Demis Hassabis said he'd be open to it, but that international coordination was the key bottleneck. Public commitments from lab leaders are what create the conditions for that coordination.

In February 2026, Dario Amodei's Anthropic dropped its commitment to pause development if its own AI became too dangerous. Holden Karnofsky, former CEO of Open Philanthropy and now at Anthropic, admitted there was "enormous pressure" to downplay risks, because triggering a pause would hurt the company. Their solution? Remove the commitment entirely.

On March 21, 2026, we marched to the offices of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei to demand they commit to a conditional pause. Nearly 200 people showed up, making it the largest AI pause protest in the US.

They claim they are building safely for the benefit of humanity. It's time they prove it.

Read the Press Release
Demis Hassabis on an AI Shift Bigger Than Industrial Age
Bloomberg · Davos · Jan 20th, 2026
Are you against these companies or AI?
No. We are not protesting the technology; we are protesting the reckless race to build it. We are here to give AI lab CEOs the public mandate they need to stop racing and start coordinating.
Is this movement nonviolent?
Yes. This is a peaceful movement of concerned citizens, families, and researchers. We are not here to disrupt, and we welcome employees of these companies to join us.
What about China?
China would also need to pause. Any agreement only works if it includes all major AI labs globally. The MIRI Technical Governance Team published a detailed proposal for an international agreement centered on a coalition led by the US and China, with verification mechanisms including AI chip tracking. Public commitments from Western lab CEOs are a first step toward the kind of international coordination that makes this possible.
What would a pause look like in practice?
No new training runs of larger or more general frontier models. The teams currently working on improving the capabilities of these models would move to narrow AI applications or alignment research instead. Current models stay available. Narrow AI applications are fine. The principle is more important than the specific definition of "frontier," but for a detailed technical proposal, see MIRI's international agreement paper, which operationalizes limits through compute thresholds (FLOP caps) and restricts research that advances toward superintelligence while preserving access to current AI.
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