Opportunities For Regional Intergovernmental Organizations

A Case for regional IGO to join as partners of the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative.

The Problem

On their own, regional intergovernmental organizations stand powerless in the face of AI. They are unable to avoid its immense risks for human safety and for further concentration of power and wealth, and unable to realize its astounding opportunities. Even larger and more integrated ones like the European Union.

The limitations of their mandates and industrial capabilities in the AI supply chain make it impossible for them, on their own, to (1) achieve and sustain state-of-the-art AI capabilities and AI sovereignty for their member states and (2) have a proportional say in the creation of global governance institutions to regulate its safety, security and largely shape our future.

On their own, even superpowers stand unable to go it alone as mitigating the proliferation and safety risks of AI are foreseen by scientists to be much harder than nuclear.

The Opportunity

The Trustless Computing Association (TCA) invites a critical mass of globally diverse states to join our Harnessing AI Risk Initiative and participate in our summits. We envision our assembly as a leading platform for engagement in bilateral and multilateral meetings, aiming to launch the AI treaty-making process.

Such a multilateral and participatory treaty-making process will serve as a premise for creating a new open global intergovernmental organisation to jointly build and share the most capable safe AIs and reliably ban unsafe ones.

We invite Regional Intergovernmental Organisations to:

Join the Initiative as a Regional Intergovernmental Organisation Member by endorsing a straightforward, non-binding Letter of Interest and contributing CHF 20,000. This engagement also allows us to collaborate as co-lead with one additional Inter-Governmental Organization (IGO), assuming shared oversight of the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative.
For those interested but not yet prepared to commit, we offer participation in the 1st Harnessing AI Risk Summit this November in Geneva or the Pre-Summit on June 12th along the G7 Summit in Italy. These exclusive closed-door bilateral and multilateral meetings in Geneva or via videoconference present an opportunity to gain deeper insights into the Initiative's workings.

A Comprehensive Perspective on Advantages

Unlocking Overall Benefits:

Enjoy exceptional economic development, sovereignty, safety, and civil rights advantages from the joint control and ownership of the Global Public Interest AI Lab. This ensures reliable long-term access and control over the most advanced safe AI systems for their governmental and private sector needs.
Radically mitigate the immense risks to human safety and AI’s extremely unaccountable concentration of power and wealth. Co-lead in shaping AI's ethics, limits, privacy, security, safety and accountability to realise its potential to bring astounding benefits to your citizens and humanity, in a mutually advantageous way for all.
Increase leverage vis-a-vis other global governance and infrastructure initiatives for AI by leading states and firms.

Summit:

Participate as a speaking participant in the Summit. “Observer status” or remote participation is also possible. Early state participants will have a guaranteed speaking slot on day one and will be more prominently displayed.
Participate in co-designing the Initiative and, therefore, in the design of global governance of AI and the constituent process leading up to it. Early participants will be accorded privileged visibility.
Learn about the current initiative and prospects of global AI governance, AI safety, and the Initiative.

Exclusive Benefits for Pioneers: the first 7 participant states will enjoy unique benefits:

Economic advantages and discounts. Acquire a "priority option" to become one of a limited number of Founding State Partners of the Initiative. As such enjoy advantages and discounts concerning all fees, quotas, contributions of the first three years of Initiative and Lab, and their sovereign fund participation as Pre-seed Funders of the Lab:

35% for the 1st IGO, and their member states
25% for the 2nd IGO, and their member states
10% for the 3rd IGO, and their member states

Political prominence. Early participants will be more prominently included in the Summit, its documents, and webpages, and they will be guaranteed a speaking slot on day 1 of the Summit.