About us

We are a new AI advocacy organization launching publicly in late summer 2026. Our goal is to amplify everyday voices and build a broad-based movement capable of winning federal AI policy. We want policies that create an economy that works for everyone, not just Big AI; that defend our essential freedoms; and that prevent the development of AI systems that pose existential risks to humans and the planet.

For years the response to AI risk has been white papers and closed-door meetings

yep, it’s our very good friends

  • theodoraward@awful.systems
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    53 minutes ago

    God as someone involved with actual anti-AI organizing on university campuses this is increasingly scaring the shit out of me.

    That said I wonder if I could somehow steal their money for nefarious Ludditic purposes. I don’t actually wonder this, really, but it does remind me of when, during my master’s degree at a university bombarded by culture war garbage, I was debating going to the well-advertised well-funded conservative groups’ fancy dinner book clubs about Plato or whatever. “Hey I’m here to chat about the Great Books! Don’t worry that my name is this but my voice sounds like this. It’s not a big deal bb” / “Oh yeah I’m soooo scared of the big brain computer. Like what if it gets too big lol. That would be sooooo bad! Here are my account and routing numbers”

  • YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems
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    4 hours ago

    lmao they’re offering 2 grand a week to anyone willing to organise a bier halle peutsch on their own college campus

    or maybe more of an, i forget the name or a good example, a stalking horse for somebody’s seizing power in the government by a false flag movement? which either way is very similar

    either way, this is some real Strategy of Tension shit

    Walkout campaign Young people are furious about an AI future being forced on us. Nearly half of 18-to-29-year-olds say AI does more harm than good. What’s missing is coordinated action that forces the government to respond. So the week of October 20, Students on 100+ college campuses will walk out of class with one demand: pause AI and bring it under public control. Two weeks later, we will go vote.

    Distributed organizer role We are seeking distributed organizers to recruit and coach the students who lead walkouts on their own campuses. You’ll be responsible for a dozen ‘flagship’ campus groups, recruiting the leaders and supporting them through the walkout. You’ll also coach ‘distributed actions,’ the campuses that sign up with us on their own, asking for support. You’ll work alongside a cohort of distributed organizers, a political-partnerships team, and a digital creator program.

    at least the march on rome had the good grace to wear black shirts out in the open about it

    https://tally.so/r/WObr6v

  • Evinceo@awful.systems
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    3 hours ago

    They recognize the groundswell of anti AI sentiment and want to try and channel it into AI booster action. Good luck with that.

  • subversive_dev@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    It’s me, an extremely grassroots charitable organization with funding already lined up for four executive positions

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      4 hours ago

      oh yeah we live in a permanent state of “you can just do that” world now, it doesn’t have to mean anything, words actually meaning anything is actually completely passe, it’s embarassing. what, you mean your grassroots broad base anti-hierarchical movement grown organically from sheer democratic outrage DOESN’T offer six-figure salaries for positions of seniority? fucking cringe dude, fucking pathetic, sad tbh lmao