The Pro-Human AI Declaration
Bengio, Suleyman, Bannon, Susan Rice and 900+ others back five principles, including no superintelligence race until proven safe
Partly confirmed
Status
- Claim
Partly confirmed
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 18 October 2026
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- Grok 4.7In its training data
It happened before the cutoffs of all four assistants, so it can be in their training data.
Key facts
- Five sections (site headings): Keeping Humans in Charge; Avoiding Concentration of Power; Protecting the Human Experience; Human Agency and Liberty; Responsibility and Accountability for AI Companies
- Content (The New Atlantis summary): humans decide whether to delegate decisions to AI; off-switches; no superintelligence race until proven safe; no self-replicating or self-improving systems; prevent AI monopolies and corporate welfare; safety testing for chatbots and labelling of AI content and identity; no AI legal personhood; strong privacy; clear liability for developers and deployers, independent safety standards, no liability shields
- Signatories (humanstatement.org, read Oct 18, 2026): ‘Yoshua Bengio, Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, Mustafa Suleyman, and 904 more’, plus 313 organizations; other names shown include Glenn Beck, Ralph Nader, Stuart Russell and Richard Branson. Counts change as signatures are verified
- Organizer: the Future of Life Institute assembled the coalition (The New Atlantis); the site itself names no organizer and links an Eko petition and a companion site, ‘Protect What’s Human’
- Second wave: The New Atlantis endorsed and reprinted the declaration in its Fall 2026 issue (No. 86), surfacing on Oct 18, 2026
What happened
The declaration is a short statement of principles for keeping AI under human control and accountable. It is notable mostly for its coalition: AI safety researchers (Bengio, Russell), a sitting frontier-lab chief (Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman), the populist right (Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck), a former Democratic national security adviser (Susan Rice) and consumer advocate Ralph Nader. “Pro-human” became a label in US politics through 2026; a “Pro-Human Assembly” with Bannon took place, and Utah’s governor used the phrase for an executive order (whether these are formally linked to the declaration was not checked).
Why it matters
It shows a left-right alliance against a superintelligence race and for company liability, which shaped the 2026 US debate on pausing or slowing frontier AI. Not verified here: the exact release day in March, the launch coverage, and whether FLI is named as organizer on the site.
Sources
2 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
2 sources: 1 primary, 1 press
Primary
- humanstatement.org: The Pro-Human AI Declarationhumanstatement.org, official
Press
- The New Atlantis (Fall 2026, No. 86): The Pro-Human AI Declarationthenewatlantis.com, press
Changes
- Filed from the New Atlantis reprint (Google News); signatory counts read on humanstatement.org