Stop The AI Race

Asking Dario to Commit to a Conditional Global Pause

In September 2025, we asked Demis Hassabis to publicly commit to stopping the AI race if every other AI lab in the world, including in China and the US, also stopped. Last month, he said he would be open to it, but international coordination was one of the key bottlenecks in getting there.

Public pressure works. Now we're bringing that same ask to Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic.

He admitted that what keeps him up at night is the "incredible market race" between top AI companies. But he argues he can't slow down because "we have geopolitical adversaries building the same technology at a similar pace."

This is reckless, and everyone knows it. Very few people are in favor of the current AI arms race. But slowing down requires coordination, not unilateral action.

We're asking him to make that coordination possible, by publicly committing to stop if others do the same.

That's what a pause in principle means: committing to stop developing frontier models if every other lab in the world credibly does the same, with independent auditors ensuring compliance.

Demis has taken the first step. Now it's Dario's turn.

On Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 12pm, we're aiming to gather 1,000 people in front of Anthropic's office to deliver that ask. The protest will be nonviolent.