Opportunities
If you share the aims of the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative, you may be interested in:
Opportunities For States
(Click here for Opportunities for Regional Intergovernmental Organizations)
The Problem
On their own, states and intergovernmental organizations stand powerless in the face of AI, unable to avoid its immense risks for human safety and for concentration of power and wealth, and unable to realize its astounding opportunities.
This is the case even in larger states like Brazil, India and Germany, or large regional intergovernmental organizations like Europe.
On their own, even superpowers stand unable to go it alone as mitigating the proliferation and safety risks of AI are expected to be much harder than nuclear.
The Opportunity
Hence, we invite a critical mass of globally-diverse states and regional IGOs to join our Harnessing AI Risk Initiative to foster - and summits, bilateral and multilateral meetings in Geneva - a truly multilateral and participatory treaty-making process for the creation of a new open global intergovernmental organization to jointly build and share the most capable safe AIs, and reliably ban unsafe ones.
More specifically, we invite states to:
Become a State Member of the Initiative by signing a simple non-binding Letter of Interest and contributing CHF 20,000 to join up to one more IGO as co-lead and controllers of the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative; or
If interested but not ready to sign yet, participate in the 1st Harnessing AI Risk Summit this November or the Pre-Summit Virtual Conference on June 12th - and/or to closed-door bilateral and multilateral meetings in Geneva or via videoconference - to learn more about the Initiative.
Benefits for State Participants
If interested, we encourage you to read the Initiative’s page for the details, our momentum, roadmap and traction, and then read below for the key benefits:
Benefits of the Initiative
Enjoy exceptional advantages in terms of economic development, sovereignty, safety and civil rights deriving from the joint control and ownership of the Global Public Interest AI Lab. This ensures reliable long-term access and control over the most advanced safe AI systems - for both their governmental and private sector needs.
Radically mitigate the immense risks to human safety and for extreme unaccountable concentration of power and wealth posed by AI. Co-lead in shaping the ethics, limits, privacy, security, safety and accountability of AI to realize its potential to bring astounding benefits to your citizens and all of humanity, in a win-win for all.
Increase their leverage vis-a-vis other global governance and infrastructure initiatives for AI by leading states and firms.
Summit:
Participate as a speaking participant in the Summit. “Observer status” or remote participation is possible. Early state participants will have a guaranteed speaking slot on day 1, and will be more prominently displayed.
Participate in co-designing the Initiative, and so therefore in the design of global governance of AI and the constituent process leading up to them. Early participants will be displayed more prominently.
Learn about the current initiative and prospects of global AI governance of AI, about AI safety, and about the Initiative.
The first 7 participant states enjoy special benefits:
Economic advantages and discounts. Acquire a "priority option" to become one of a limited number of Founding State Partners of the Initiative. As such -in relation to similar states that join later - they will enjoy advantages and discounts in respect to all fees, quotas, contributions of the first three years of Initiative and Lab, and their sovereign fund participation as Pre-seed Funders of the Lab:
70% for the 1st to the 2nd state
40% for the 3rd to the 4th state
20% for the 5th to the 7th state
Political prominence. More prominently included in the Summits and in the Initiative’s documents and webpages. Guaranteed speaking slot on day 1 of the Summit.
Contacts
Email to: partnerships@trustlesscomputing.org
Opportunities For Donors
Are you concerned about the immense risks of AI for yourself, your progeny and humanity? Are you excited about the astounding potential benefits of AI, on the other hand, if we stave off those risks? We sure are, on both counts.
A wide majority of experts, states, and world citizens agree, by now, and most agree any real solution requires unprecedented global coordination.
A handful of states won’t be able, on their own, to control AI as they did with partial success for nuclear and bioweapons.
Nearly all states are by now well aware that, on their own, they stand powerless in the AI domain, and a new global organization to jointly develop the most capable safe AI and reliably ban unsafe ones needs to be built. But the prevailing treaty-making models - based on unstructured summits and unanimous declarations -are completely ineffective, as shown by those for nuclear and climate change.
For these reasons, we are leading since last March an Initiative to replicate on a global basis and only for AI what is arguably history’s most successful and democratic intergovernmental treaty-making model. That’s the one that started with two US states convening of the Annapolis Convention in 1786, then to the approval of a federal constitution via simple majority in the US Constitutional Convention in 1787, and then its ratification by 9 states and then all 13 in 1789.
If you agree with the above, then you may want to donate or help us find donors to sustain or expand our Harnessing AI Risk Initiative and its 1st Summit this November 2024 in Geneva.
Effectiveness
Not only is our strategy quite unique in its potential to create huge returns in terms of positive change, but we have demonstrated exceptional dedication, extreme frugality and high effectiveness. So your donation will be put to very good use.
As you can read in our About Us page, the milestones and momentum that we accomplished so far are the fruits of volunteer work and great personal sacrifice by Rufo Guerreschi and from 32 advisors, and 39 participants and 13 participant organizations. We received minimal non-salary funding from our spin-off TRUSTLESS.AI, till its closing last September.
Imagine what we can achieve together if properly funded!
Benefits for Donors
If interested, we encourage you to read the Initiative’s page for the details, our momentum, roadmap and traction, and then read below for the key benefits:
Contribute to an extremely effective way to promote the global public good, safety and wellbeing or current and future generations.
Contribute effectively to tackle head-on what is arguably the greatest challenge that has ever faced humanity: the lack of an empowered, expert, federal and democratic global governance of AI and digital communications. A solution of such challenge would:
Enable humanity to stave off the immense risks posed by AI and digital communications, and realize their astounding potential.
Protect the safety and wellbeing of your kids, and their kids, for generations to come.
Affirm your legacy for decades to come, being prominently recognized and publicized as an Early Patron of the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative.
Join a community and movement of bright and good people.
Receive invitations to social events and dinners during our Harnessing AI Risk Summit and preparatory meetings in Geneva and elsewhere.
Join and host patron’s meetings in your city.
Participate as a speaking participant of the Summit.
Acquire an option to participate as an interested pre-seed funder or investor in the $15+ billion Global Public Interest AI Lab.
Operational Costs for 2024
Apr - July 2024 (Pre-Summit Virtual Conference):
$7,000 for external event service: virtual conference organizing, live streaming, video post-production and social media for youtube and social media dissemination.
$18,000 for staff costs: TCA President and one to-be-hired part-time junior Communications Director:
Preparatory content production: youtube videos on the initiative by advisors, participants and senior staff.
Engagement with speakers and conference content preparation
Engagement with states in Geneva, and various capitals.
(Aug- Dec 2024) Summit:
$12,000 for venue and catering for two days of the Summit in Geneva
$13,000 for external event service: for on-site professional video production, post-production and social media for youtube and social media dissemination.
$25,000 for staff costs, via TCA President, one part-time junior Communications Director, and on-site event staff (event manager, assistant, and a moderator to complement 2 other volunteer ones).
An extra $25-50,000 would enable us to cover our ultra-slim operating costs till the end of the year, to ensure focus on operations rather than fundraising. We have detailed plans on how we can use up to $5,000,000 in our 14-page Master Grant Proposal.
Use of Donations
$25-75k will enable us to power-charge our Pre-Summit and hold our 1st Summit
$1.5-5 million will enable us to sustain the Initiative’s operations for 3 years, including:
Salary of two senior full-time staff in Geneva and president Guerreschi
Office space, events budget, communications, two junior staff
Funds beyond $1.5m will be used to outsource to partner NGOs for engagement with states in world capitals and in the Global South, and joint scientific work in AI governance and AI safety governance.
If you are Interested
Documents available on qualified request:
A 2-page Intro for Prospective Donors
A 14-page $ 1.5-5 million Master Grant Proposal for
A 9-page Case for Family Offices donate to the Initiative or to invest in the Lab.
A 4-page $40k Grant Proposal for Extension of the Scientific Underpinning (of the Initiative)
Contacts
Email to: partnerships@trustlesscomputing.org
Opportunities for NGOs and Experts
We offer all individuals and organizations - and especially a globally-diverse set of leading NGOs, scientists, academics and experts in the fields of AI safety, AI governance, state-grade IT security, and global democratic governance - the opportunity to:
Join as individual or organizational Member of the Coalition for the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative, by taking 5 minutes to read and sing the Open Call of the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative v.3.
As a member of the Coalition, you’ll be able to apply to join as advisor or as speaking participant in our 1st Harnessing AI Risk Summit, this November in Geneva, and its Pre-Summit Virtual Conference this June 12th.
As a member, you will help - within your abilities and possibilities, and without any formal or legal obligation - to help us shape the initiative and to attract more relevant stakeholders to the Initiatives, by sharing with them our opportunities for states, IGOs, NGOs, experts, leading AI labs and investors in the foreseen Global Public Interest AI Lab.
Join as a partner of the Initiative in various ways.
Contacts
Email to: partnerships@trustlesscomputing.org
Opportunities for Investors in the Global AI Lab
We offer family offices, VCs, angel investors, UHNWIs, private banks, private investment funds, sovereign funds and regional intergovernmental funds (e.g. EIB, ADB) the opportunity to participate as early pre-seed investors in a public-private partly-decentralized $15 billion Global Public Interest AI Lab.
The Lab is a key part of the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative, which is gathering in Geneva a critical mass of globally-diverse states to design and jump-start an open global constituent assembly to create a binding treaty for a new intergovernmental organisation to reliably ban unsafe AIs, and jointly create, regulate and exploit the most capable safe AIs.
The Global Public Interest AI Lab
The Lab will be an open, partly-decentralized, democratically-governed joint-venture of states and suitable tech firms aimed to achieve and sustain a solid global leadership or co-leadership in human-controllable AI capability, technical alignment research and AI safety measures.
The Lab will accrue capabilities and resources of member states and private partners, and distribute dividends and control among member states and directly to their citizens, all the while stimulating and safeguarding private initiative for innovation and oversight.
The Lab will be primarily funded via project finance, buttressed by pre-licensing and pre-commercial procurement from participating states and client firms.
The Lab will seek to achieve and sustain a resilient “mutual dependency” in its wider supply chain vis-a-vis superpowers and future public-private consortia, through joint investments, diplomacy, trade relations and strategic industrial assets of participant states - while remaining open to merge with them on equal terms.
Opportunities
If interested, we encourage you to read the Initiative’s page for the details, our momentum, roadmap and traction, and then read below for the key benefits:
We offer opportunities to invest $50,000 to $500,000, and links further documentation. The funds will enable us to hire two already-identified staff with exceptional skills: a senior high-level AI infrastructure architect and a top-level Geneva-based diplomatic official. The investment carries a cap of 50x on its returns, and no voting powers, except for sovereign funds.
Participate as speaking participants (and possibly as sponsors) of the Summit to discuss the possibility of joining via LoIs or binding agreement as funders or investors of the Global Public Interest AI Lab.
Contacts
Email to: partnerships@trustlesscomputing.org
Opportunities for Leading AI Labs
The Problem
It is becoming increasingly unrealistic for even the best-funded leading AI labs - on their own - to compete with a few US and Chinese BigTech for AGI leadership, secure AI market niches, or to contribute to steer a reckless race for AGIs on a safe and beneficial course for humanity.
OpenAI has hinted at a possible way out with its proposal for a "public-private $7 trillion AI consortium”, but missed to specify that it should be open to all states and firms on equal or fair terms, and it should be democratically created and controlled.
The Opportunity
Hence, we invite you to join as AI Lab Partner of the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative, which is aggregating a critical mass of globally-diverse states, AI labs and key supply chain firms to democratically build a partly-decentralized public-private $15+ billion Global Public Benefit AI Lab, an IT Security Agency, to an international AI Safety Agency, to reliably ban dangerous development and use.
The Global Public Benefit AI Lab
The Lab will be an open, partly-decentralized, democratically-governed joint-venture of states and tech firms aimed to achieve and sustain a solid global leadership or co-leadership in human-controllable AI capability, technical alignment research and AI safety measures.
The Lab will accrue capabilities and resources of participant states and firms, and distribute dividends and control to member states and directly to its citizens, all the while stimulating and safeguarding private initiative for innovation and oversight.
The Lab will be cost at least USD 15 billion, and will be primarily funded via project finance buttressed by pre-licensing and pre-commercial procurement from participating states and firms.
The Lab will seek to achieve and sustain a solid “mutual dependency” in its wider supply chain vis-a-vis superpowers and future public-private consortia, through joint investments, diplomacy, trade relations and strategic industrial assets of participant states - while remaining open to merge with them on equal terms - as detailed in our recent article on the prestigious digital policy journal, The Yuan.
For more information on the Lab, refer to the Global Public Interest AI Lab page.
Benefits and Role for AI Lab Partners
Role:
As innovation partners and IP providers, AI Lab Partners will be compensated via revenue share, secured via long-term pre-licensing and pre-commercial procurement agreements from participating states and firms.
As go-to-market partners, AI Lab Partners will gain permanent access to the core AI/AGI capabilities, infrastructure, services and IP developed by the Lab. Such capabilities will aim to far outcompete all others in capabilities and safety, and be unique in actual and perceived trustworthiness of their safety and accountability.
Partnership terms will be designed so as to maximize the chances of a steady increase in their market valuation in order to attract the participation of AI labs that are governed by for-profit legal forms that legally mandate their CEOs to only maximize shareholder value.
Benefits:
Ability to advance both their mission to benefit humanity, their stock valuations, and retain their agency to innovate at the root and application level, within safety bounds:
Maintain the freedom to innovate at both the base and application layers, and retain their ability to offer their services to states, firms and consumers, within some limits.
This setup will enable such labs to continue to innovate in capabilities and safety at the base and application layers but outside a “Wild West '' race to the bottom among states and labs, advancing both mission and market valuation.
The first seven AI labs that will join as participants will enjoy substantial economic advantages in relation to the Initiative and the Global Public Interest AI Lab, relative to states that join later. More specifically, in respect to all revenue share, IP compensations, decision making, fees, co-investments that will be required of AI labs of similar kind in the future by the Initiative and the Lab:
The 1st to the 2nd lab participant will receive a 45% premium
The 3rd to the 4th lab participant will receive a 30% premium
The 5th to the 6th lab participant will receive a 15% premium
Offer
More concretely, we invite leading AI labs to:
Become a AI Lab Partner of the Initiative by signing a simple non-binding Letter of Interest and contributing CHF 20,000 to secure your spot as one of no more than seven partner labs; or
If interested but not ready to sign yet:
Participate in the 1st Harnessing AI Risk Summit this November or the Pre-Summit Virtual Conference on June 12th - and/or to closed-door bilateral meetings in Geneva or via videoconference - to learn more about the Initiative.
Join as member of the Coalition for the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative by signing our 400-word Open Call for the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative.
Contacts
Opportunities For Regional Intergovernmental Organizations
The Problem
On their own, regional intergovernmental organizations stand powerless in the face of AI. They are unable to avoid its immense risks for human safety and for further concentration of power and wealth, and unable to realize its astounding opportunities. Even larger and more integrated ones like the European Union.
The limitations of their mandates and industrial capabilities in the AI supply chain make it impossible for them, on their own, to (1) achieve and sustain state-of-the-art AI capabilities and AI sovereignty for their member states and (2) have a proportional say in the creation of global governance institutions to regulate its safety, security and largely shape our future.
On their own, even superpowers stand unable to go it alone as mitigating the proliferation and safety risks of AI are foreseen by scientists to be much harder than nuclear.
The Opportunity for regional IGOs
Hence, we invite a critical mass of globally-diverse states and regional IGOs to join our Harnessing AI Risk Initiative to foster - and summits, bilateral and multilateral meetings in Geneva - a truly multilateral and participatory treaty-making process for the creation of a new open global intergovernmental organization to jointly build and share the most capable safe AIs, and reliably ban unsafe ones.
More specifically, we invite IGOs to:
Become a IGO Member of the Initiative by signing a simple non-binding Letter of Interest and contributing CHF 20,000 to join up to one more IGO as co-lead and controllers of the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative; or
If interested but not ready to sign yet, participate in the 1st Harnessing AI Risk Summit this November or the Pre-Summit Virtual Conference on June 12th - and/or to closed-door bilateral and multilateral meetings in Geneva or via videoconference - to learn more about the Initiative.
Benefits for Regional Intergovernmental Organizations and their Member States
If interested, we encourage you to read the Initiative’s page for the details, our momentum, roadmap and traction, and then read below for the key benefits:
Benefits from the Initiative
Enjoy exceptional advantages in terms of economic development, sovereignty, safety and civil rights, that derive from the joint control and ownership of the Global Public Interest AI Lab. This ensures reliable long-term access and control over the most advanced safe AI systems - for both their governmental and private sector needs.
Radically mitigate the immense risks to human safety and for extreme unaccountable concentration of power and wealth posed by AI. Co-lead in shaping the ethics, limits, privacy, security, safety and accountability of AI to realize its potential to bring astounding benefits your citizens and all of humanity, in a win-win for all.
Increase their leverage vis-a-vis other global governance and infrastructure initiatives for AI by leading states and firms.
Benefits from the participation in the Summit:
Participate as speaking participant in the Summit. “Observer status” or remote participation is possible. Early state participants will have guaranteed speaking slot in day 1, and will be displayed more prominently displayed.
Participate in co-designing the Initiative, and so therefore in the design of global governance of AI and the constituent process leading up to them. Early participants will be displayed more prominently.
Learn about the current initiative and prospects of global AI governance of AI, about AI safety, and about the Initiative.
The first 3 regional IGOs participants enjoy special benefits:
Economic advantages and discounts. Acquire a "priority option" to become one of a limited number of Founding Regional IGO Partners of the Initiative. As such -in relation to similar states that join later - they will enjoy advantages and discounts in respect to all fees, quotas, contributions of the first three years of Initiative and Lab, and their sovereign fund participation as Pre-seed Funders of the Lab:
35% for the 1st IGO, and their member states.
25% for the 2nd IGO, and their member states.
10% for the 3rd IGO, and their member states.
Political prominence. More prominently included in the Summits and in the Initiative’s documents and webpages. Guaranteed speaking slot on day 1 of the Summit.
Contacts
Email to: partnerships@trustlesscomputing.org