{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-10-18T22:10:00+02:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-03-01-pro-human-ai-declaration/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-03-01-pro-human-ai-declaration/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-03-01-pro-human-ai-declaration","date":"2026-03-01","date_precision":"month","short_title":"The Pro-Human AI Declaration","deck":"Bengio, Suleyman, Bannon, Susan Rice and 900+ others back five principles, including no superintelligence race until proven safe","takeaway":null,"category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":3,"confidence":"medium","status":{"key":"partly","labels":["Partly confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"humanstatement.org: The Pro-Human AI Declaration","url":"https://humanstatement.org/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"humanstatement.org"},{"n":2,"title":"The New Atlantis (Fall 2026, No. 86): The Pro-Human AI Declaration","url":"https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-pro-human-ai-declaration","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"thenewatlantis.com"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-10-18","updated":"2026-10-18","orgs":["Future of Life Institute"],"title":"The Pro-Human AI Declaration: Bengio, Suleyman, Bannon, Susan Rice and 900+ others back five principles, including no superintelligence race until proven safe","summary":"In March 2026 the Pro-Human AI Declaration (humanstatement.org), organized by the Future of Life Institute according to The New Atlantis, set out five principles: keep humans in charge (off-switches, no superintelligence race until it is shown to be safe, no self-replicating or self-improving systems), avoid concentration of power, protect family and children, protect human agency (no AI legal personhood) and make AI companies liable. Its signers span the political spectrum: Yoshua Bengio, Mustafa Suleyman, Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, Glenn Beck, Ralph Nader, Stuart Russell and Richard Branson among 908 people and 313 organizations (Oct 18, 2026).","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"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["declaration","superintelligence","existential-risk","liability","children","power-concentration","bipartisan","fli"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nThe declaration is a short statement of principles for keeping AI under human control and accountable. It is notable mostly for\nits coalition: AI safety researchers (Bengio, Russell), a sitting frontier-lab chief (Microsoft AI's Mustafa Suleyman), the\npopulist right (Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck), a former Democratic national security adviser (Susan Rice) and consumer advocate Ralph\nNader. \"Pro-human\" became a label in US politics through 2026; a \"Pro-Human Assembly\" with Bannon took place, and Utah's governor\nused the phrase for an executive order (whether these are formally linked to the declaration was not checked).\n\n## Why it matters\n\nIt shows a left-right alliance against a superintelligence race and for company liability, which shaped the 2026 US debate on\npausing or slowing frontier AI. Not verified here: the exact release day in March, the launch coverage, and whether FLI is named\nas organizer on the site.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-10-06-utah-cox-pro-human-ai-executive-order","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-06-utah-cox-pro-human-ai-executive-order/","date":"2026-10-06","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signs a 'pro-human' AI executive order for state government","deck":null,"takeaway":"A small step, but it is one more state setting its own AI rules for government while the federal \"super intelligence\" policy goes in a different direction.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":2,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":3,"official":1,"filed":"2026-10-07","updated":"2026-10-07","orgs":["State of Utah"]},{"id":"2023-03-22-fli-pause-giant-ai-experiments","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-03-22-fli-pause-giant-ai-experiments/","date":"2023-03-22","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Future of Life Institute open letter calls for a 6-month pause on training AI more powerful than GPT-4","deck":null,"takeaway":"It was the first mass-signature call to slow frontier AI, and it framed three years of pause debates.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":1,"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Future of Life Institute"]}],"people":[{"id":"yoshua-bengio","name":"Yoshua Bengio","url":"https://postcutoff.com/person/yoshua-bengio/"},{"id":"mustafa-suleyman","name":"Mustafa Suleyman","url":"https://postcutoff.com/person/mustafa-suleyman/"},{"id":"stuart-russell","name":"Stuart Russell","url":"https://postcutoff.com/person/stuart-russell/"}],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-10-18","type":"filed","text":"Created from the New Atlantis reprint (Google News); signatory counts read on humanstatement.org"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-10-18","run":null,"sources_read":"The New Atlantis reprint (Google News); signatory counts read on humanstatement.org","updated":"2026-10-18","human_review":null,"version":null},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-argon","name":"Gemini 4 Argon","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true}],"short_url":null}