Opportunities For States

A case for states to join as partners of the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative and/or the Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI.

The Problem

On their own, nearly all states stand completely powerless in the face of AI. They are unable to avoid its immense risks for human safety and for concentration of power and wealth, and unable to realize its astounding opportunities for their citizens.

This is the case even in larger states like Brazil, India and Germany, or large regional intergovernmental organizations, like Europe.

On their own, even superpowers stand unable to tackle the immense safety risks of AI because mitigating the proliferation and safety risks of AI are expected to be much harder than nuclear, requiring wide global adherence and compliance.

The Opportunity 

Amidst such dire situation, there is an opportunity for pioneering states to join a critical mass of globally-diverse states and NGOs in a coalition to foster - via summits, bilateral and multilateral meetings in Geneva and beyond - a set forth a truly multilateral, participatory and effective treaty-making process for the creation of a new open global intergovernmental organization to jointly build and share the most capable safe AIs, and reliably ban unsafe ones.

Our Offer to States

  • Join as State Member of the Initiative by signing a simple non-binding Letter of Interest and contributing CHF 50,000, to join up to six more states as co-lead and steering controllers of theproposed intergovernmental treaty-making vehicle and process, and take a co-lead in the creation and exploitation of a Global Public Benefit AI Lab.

  • If interested but not ready to sign yet, learn more about the Initiative and engage with other parties via closed-door bilateral and multilateral meetings in Geneva or via videoconference or by participating in the 1st Harnessing AI Risk Summit, planned for this November in Geneva, which follows our hybrid Pre-Summit Virtual Conference, held on June 12th along the G7 Summit in Italy. Sponsoring or hosting the Summit or future editions or related events is also an option. Participation as an "observer" is also possible.

Benefits of Membership

  • Enjoy exceptional economic development, sovereignty, safety, and civil rights advantages from the joint control and ownership of the foreseen Global Public Benefit AI Lab, and ability to invest in it via their sovereign funds. 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 realize its potential to bring astounding benefits to your citizens and humanity, in a mutually advantageous way for all.

  • Increase leverage and negotiaiton paower vis-a-vis other global governance and infrastructure initiatives for AI by leading states and firms.

Additional Benefits for the first 7 Member States

  • Economic advantages. Acquire a "priority option" to become one of a limited number of Founding State Partners​. As such - in relation to similar states that join later - they will enjoy advantages and discounts in respect to 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:

    • 70% for the 1st to the 2nd state

    • 40% for the 3rd to the 4th state

    • 20% for the 5th to the 7th state

  • Political advantages. More prominently included in the Summits and in the Initiative’s documents and webpages. Guaranteed speaking slot on day 1 of the Summit. Be considered as a potential host of the 1st Summit or future ones.

Benefits of Participation in the Summit 

  • Learn more about the coalition and its plans, as well as about the current initiatives and prospects of global AI governance, AI safety, and the Initiative.

  • Participate in co-designing a treaty-making process for a proper global, federal, democratic and expert-led governance of AI.

  •  Early state participants will be accorded privileged visibility, and have a guaranteed speaking slot on day one and will be more prominently displayed. “Observer status” or remote participation is also possible, as well as participation as "against the Coalition's aims and/or core methods" in dedicated debate sessions.

Contact details

  • Rufo Guerreschi, Founder and Executive Director
    Email: rufo@trustlesscomputing.org  — Tel: +393289376075

  • Marta Jastrzębska, Director of Fundraising and  Partnerships
    Email: marta@trustlesscomputing.org — Tel: +447502213612