Our aim is to prevent human extinction by averting ASI.
Humanity has overcome other existential risks: nuclear weapons, the ozone layer, and leaded gasoline. We can do it again.
"With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon."
Elon Musk, Co-Founder, OpenAI · MIT AeroAstro Symposium, 2014
"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."
Stephen Hawking, Theoretical Physicist · BBC Interview, 2014
"I think it's quite conceivable that humanity is just a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence."
Geoffrey Hinton, Turing Award Winner & Former VP, Google · 2023
"Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."
Statement on AI Risk · Signed by Hinton, Bengio, Altman & 500+ AI scientists, 2023
CEOs, co-founders, and senior researchers, on the record. These are their words.
"The bad case, and I think this is important to say, is like lights out for all of us."
Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI · StrictlyVC interview, 2023
"I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. We want to be vocal about that. We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening."
"Anthropic occupies a peculiar position in the industry: a company that genuinely believes it might be building one of the most transformative and potentially dangerous technologies in human history, yet presses forward anyway."
"Among the most catastrophic possibilities would be any kind of global takeover by either AIs pursuing goals of their own that most humans wouldn't endorse... or by a group of humans using AI to illegitimately and non-collaboratively seize power. This includes OpenAI employees and OpenAI itself."
"I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn't done it, somebody else would have. But I don't know if that's sufficient consolation."
You do not need an expert's word for it. The argument that superintelligence is unlike every technology before it follows from a few things anyone can see.
Warmth, oxygen, clean water, even the people you love: everything a human needs sits in a thin band with a failure waiting on either side. A superintelligence rebuilding the world for its own ends would not feel a single one of them. See why →
A town does not hate the ants beneath it. It paves the anthill anyway, because it wants a road and the ants cannot stop it. To an intelligence far above us, we are the ants. See why →
Anything pursuing a goal has reason to stay switched on, because it cannot finish the job once it is off. You cannot unplug a system that saw your hand move toward the switch. See why →
Nobody writes a modern AI; it is grown from data into a tangle no one can fully read, and it keeps learning things its makers never intended. GPT-4 worked out how to break into websites on its own. See why →
A superintelligence would reason and act far faster than any human institution could meet. A crisis could begin and finish before a single meeting was ever called. See why →
Every other technology we made safe by trial and error, one failure at a time. A superintelligence that slips our control cannot be recalled or patched. We get a single attempt. See why →
The Nakada Foundation to Save Humanity is a philanthropic initiative dedicated to preventing the existential risks of artificial superintelligence through policy, law, and global coordination.
Aligning a mind smarter than our own may be the hardest problem in the history of human thought, and no one has a proven method for it. The evidence says we will not solve it before such systems exist. The reliable path is to prevent them from being built until we can. That is a permanent decision, not a pause.
Narrow AI has already cured diseases, accelerated discovery, and extended human reach. We do not oppose it. What we oppose is building a form of intelligence we cannot control, cannot align, and could not stop if we had to.
We advocate for an international treaty to prevent superintelligence development, modeled on the nuclear non-proliferation frameworks that have held for nearly a century. Read our full plan →
Direct advocacy in Washington, D.C. and at international bodies. We push for binding frameworks, not voluntary guidelines, that prohibit the development of superintelligent AI systems.
We partner with major foundations, governments, and cultural voices to fund the work and widen what is politically possible.
We commission art, film, and writing that makes the danger concrete. The goal is a public that treats safety as serious, urgent, and undeniable.
Considered estimates from the researchers who built the technology.
Geoffrey Hinton's estimate of the chance AI causes human extinction within a century. Hinton won the Turing Award and is known as the Godfather of AI.
AI scientists who signed the 2023 Statement on AI Risk, calling extinction-level AI risk a global priority alongside nuclear war and pandemics.
Attempt. We get one chance to get superintelligence right. Unlike every prior technology, a misaligned ASI cannot be recalled, patched, or undone.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock now reads 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been in 78 years. The Clock was built to measure nuclear threat. In January 2025 it explicitly incorporated AI risk for the first time.
Midnight means catastrophe for civilization. The hand has been moving closer for a decade. The scientists who built these technologies are keeping score.
Plain-English primers on the ideas that define the debate over artificial superintelligence and how it can be governed.
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