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As of: 2026-10-18 22:10 CEST.
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# The Pro-Human AI Declaration

Full title: The Pro-Human AI Declaration: Bengio, Suleyman, Bannon, Susan Rice and 900+ others back five principles, including no superintelligence race until proven safe

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

## 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.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): in its training data
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): in its training data
- Gemini 4 Argon (training cutoff March 2026): in its training data
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): in its training data

## Sources

1. [humanstatement.org: The Pro-Human AI Declaration](https://humanstatement.org/) (humanstatement.org, official)
2. [The New Atlantis (Fall 2026, No. 86): The Pro-Human AI Declaration](https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-pro-human-ai-declaration) (thenewatlantis.com, press)

## Changes

- 2026-10-18 (filed): Created from the New Atlantis reprint (Google News); signatory counts read on humanstatement.org

## Related

- 2026-10-06: [Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signs a 'pro-human' AI executive order for state government](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-06-utah-cox-pro-human-ai-executive-order/index.md)
- 2023-03-22: [Future of Life Institute open letter calls for a 6-month pause on training AI more powerful than GPT-4](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-03-22-fli-pause-giant-ai-experiments/index.md)
- People: [Yoshua Bengio](https://postcutoff.com/person/yoshua-bengio/), [Mustafa Suleyman](https://postcutoff.com/person/mustafa-suleyman/), [Stuart Russell](https://postcutoff.com/person/stuart-russell/)