A roadmap for AI, if anyone will listen

A bipartisan coalition of experts, former officials, and public figures has published the Pro-Human Declaration, a framework for responsible AI development amid the absence of U.S. government regulation. The document outlines five pillars: keeping humans in charge, avoiding power concentration, protecting human experience, preserving individual liberty, and holding AI companies legally accountable. Key provisions include a moratorium on superintelligence development until scientifically proven safe, mandatory off-switches, and bans on self-replicating or self-improving AI architectures. The declaration's release coincided with the Pentagon designating Anthropic a 'supply chain risk' after the company refused unlimited military use of its technology, while OpenAI struck its own Pentagon deal. MIT physicist Max Tegmark, a key organizer, argues child safety is the most viable political pressure point to establish pre-deployment testing requirements that could later expand to broader AI risks.