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, 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
The Trustless Computing Association (TCA) invites a critical mass of globally diverse states to join our Harnessing AI Risk Initiative and participate in our summits. We envision our assembly as a leading platform for engagement in bilateral and multilateral meetings, aiming to launch the AI treaty-making process.
Such a multilateral and participatory treaty-making process will serve as a premise for creating a new open global intergovernmental organisation to jointly build and share the most capable safe AIs and reliably ban unsafe ones.
We invite Regional Intergovernmental Organisations to:
Join the Initiative as a Regional Intergovernmental Organisation Member by endorsing a straightforward, non-binding Letter of Interest and contributing CHF 20,000. This engagement also allows us to collaborate as co-lead with one additional Inter-Governmental Organization (IGO), assuming shared oversight of the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative.
For those interested but not yet prepared to commit, we offer participation in the 1st Harnessing AI Risk Summit this November or the Pre-Summit Virtual Conference on June 12th. These exclusive closed-door bilateral and multilateral meetings in Geneva or via videoconference present an opportunity to gain deeper insights into the Initiative's workings.
A Comprehensive Perspective on Advantages
Unlocking Overall Benefits:
Enjoy exceptional economic development, sovereignty, safety, and civil rights advantages 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 their governmental and private sector needs.
Radically mitigate the immense risks to human safety and AI’s extremely unaccountable concentration of power and wealth. Co-lead in shaping AI's ethics, limits, privacy, security, safety and accountability to realise its potential to bring astounding benefits to your citizens and humanity, in a mutually advantageous way for all.
Increase 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 also possible. Early state participants will have a guaranteed speaking slot on day one and will be more prominently displayed.
Participate in co-designing the Initiative and, therefore, in the design of global governance of AI and the constituent process leading up to it. Early participants will be accorded privileged visibility.
Learn about the current initiative and prospects of global AI governance, AI safety, and the Initiative.
Exclusive Benefits for Pioneers: the first 7 participant states will enjoy unique 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 enjoy advantages and discounts concerning 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. Early participants will be more prominently included in the Summit, its documents, and webpages, and they will be guaranteed a speaking slot on day 1 of the Summit.
Contact us to discuss possible collaboration:
partnerships@trustlesscomputing.org
Opportunities For Donors
When confronted with the ever-expanding realm of AI, individual states and intergovernmental organisations find themselves relatively powerless, confronting significant risks and challenges beyond national borders. These risks manifest in various forms, including but not limited to the erosion of privacy rights through pervasive surveillance technologies, exacerbating social inequalities due to unequal access to technological advancements, and consolidating power and wealth in the hands of tech giants and oligopolies.
At the same time, AI presents unparalleled opportunities for societal advancement, economic growth, and global connectivity, yet harnessing these opportunities necessitates cohesive efforts and collaborative strategies. Even for nations with considerable resources and influence, the complexity and scale of technological challenges persist. Recognising the interconnected nature of these issues is crucial to the global efforts required to address AI. It underscores the imperative for tightly-knit state and regional intergovernmental cooperation and coordinated action on a worldwide scale.
Trustless Computing Association (TCA) was initially self-funded and managed to achieve significant milestones. These accomplishments were made possible through the volunteer efforts of our advisors, participants, and selected NGOs, along with the great personal sacrifices of Rufo Guerreschi, Founder and Executive Director. With the financial support of external donors, we could reach our critical milestones and expand the scale of our mission, working towards achieving our ambitious goals. As detailed in our Who We Are section, the milestones and momentum we've gained demonstrate our commitment to making a substantial impact. We invite you to join us on this journey to contribute to a cause that promises growth and meaningful change to humanity.
This initiative offers a unique opportunity to stand at the forefront of transformative change. As pioneers in this movement, individuals gain the chance to shape the future, steering the world towards more sustainable and equitable practices, and enabling a safe and controlled use of AI. Your involvement leads to groundbreaking advancements and provides profound moral satisfaction. Being part of such a pivotal effort affords participants a deep sense of fulfillment, knowing that their contributions are helping to forge a better path for future generations. This experience is not just about witnessing change; it's about actively driving it and making a lasting impact on the global stage. As you collaborate with other forward-thinkers and innovators, you become an integral part of a collective endeavor that aims to make the world a better place, securing a legacy of impact and inspiration.
A Comprehensive Perspective on Advantages
Unlocking Overall Benefits:
Participating in this initiative positions you at the forefront of change, providing the unique opportunity to be a true pioneer in shaping a better world and gaining profound moral fulfillment from driving meaningful progress.
Your contribution is crucial in advancing global public good, improving safety, and enhancing the well-being of both present and future generations.
Supporting our Initiative helps tackle what is arguably the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.
By helping our organisation we jointly bring solutions to the lack of an empowered, expert, federal and democratic global governance of AI and digital communications. A solution to such a challenge would:
Enable humanity to stave off the immense risks posed by AI and digital communications, and realise their astounding potential.
Protect the safety and well-being of your children, and their children, for generations to come.
Affirm your legacy for decades, being recognised as an Early Patron of the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative.
Join a community and movement of distinguished and accomplished individuals:
Receive invitations to exclusive social events during our Harnessing AI Risk Summit, including preliminary gatherings in Geneva and other locations.
Engage in and host Patron's meetings in your city.
Participate as a speaker at the Summit.
Acquire an option to participate as a pre-seed funder or investor in the $15+ billion Global Public Interest AI Lab.
Contact us to discuss possible collaboration:
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.
Contact us to discuss possible collaboration:
partnerships@trustlesscomputing.org
Opportunities for Funders of the 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.
Contact us to discuss possible collaboration:
partnerships@trustlesscomputing.org
Opportunities for Leading AI Labs
It is increasingly challenging for even the most well-resourced leading AL Labs to independently compete with a select group of U.S. and Chinese BigTech companies for AGI leadership, secure AI market niches, or influence the direction of an unchecked race for AGIs on a safe and beneficial course for humanity.
The suggested "7 trillion proposed AI consortium," which aims to focus on advancing large-scale artificial intelligence models for scientific discovers and involves a global network of researchers from various prestigious institutions, plans to address the complexities of building, training, and utilising AI models that reach or exceed one trillion parameters. However, the proposal overlooks the necessity of ensuring that it is accessible to all states and firms on equitable and fair terms and is established and governed democratically.
We cordially invite you to join us as an AI Lab Partner of the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative. This collaborative effort aims to unite a diverse array of states, AI labs, and essential supply chain companies from around the globe. We aim to establish a partially decentralised public-private $15+ billion democratically Global Public Benefit AI Lab and transform the IT Security Agency into an International AI Safety Agency to ban dangerous development and use of AI.
The Global Public Interest AI Lab
The Lab will function as an inclusive, partially decentralised entity governed democratically through collaboration between states and appropriate technology firms. Its primary objective is establishing and maintaining a robust global leadership, or co-leadership, in human-controllable AI capability, technical alignment research, and AI safety measures.
The Lab will accrue the 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 initiatives 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 the strategic industrial assets of participant states while remaining open to merging with them on equal terms.
A Comprehensive Perspective on Advantages
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 the actual and perceived trustworthiness of their safety and accountability.
Partnership terms will be designed to maximise the chances of a steady increase in their market valuation, attracting the participation of AI labs governed by for-profit legal forms that legally mandate their CEOs to maximise shareholder value.
Benefits:
Ability to advance both their mission to benefit humanity and their stock valuations and retain their agency to innovate at the root and application level within safety bounds.
They should maintain the freedom to innovate at both the base and application layers and retain their ability to offer services to states, firms, and consumers within some limits.
This setup will enable such labs to continue innovating capabilities and safety at the base and application layers without a “Wild West” race to the bottom among states and labs, advancing 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, concerning all revenue share, IP compensations, decision-making, fees, and 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
TCA Proposal:
We invite leading AI labs to:
Join the Initiative as an AI Lab Partner by executing a straightforward, non-binding Letter of Interest and contributing CHF 20,000 to reserve your position as one of no more than seven partner labs.
If interested but not ready to commit:
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.
Become a Coalition for the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative member by signing our Open Call.
Contact us to discuss possible collaboration:
partnerships@trustlesscomputing.org
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
The Trustless Computing Association (TCA) invites a critical mass of globally diverse states to join our Harnessing AI Risk Initiative and participate in our summits. We envision our assembly as a leading platform for engagement in bilateral and multilateral meetings, aiming to launch the AI treaty-making process.
Such a multilateral and participatory treaty-making process will serve as a premise for creating a new open global intergovernmental organisation to jointly build and share the most capable safe AIs and reliably ban unsafe ones.
We invite Regional Intergovernmental Organisations to:
Join the Initiative as a Regional Intergovernmental Organisation Member by endorsing a straightforward, non-binding Letter of Interest and contributing CHF 20,000. This engagement also allows us to collaborate as co-lead with one additional Inter-Governmental Organization (IGO), assuming shared oversight of the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative.
For those interested but not yet prepared to commit, we offer participation in the 1st Harnessing AI Risk Summit this November or the Pre-Summit Virtual Conference on June 12th. These exclusive closed-door bilateral and multilateral meetings in Geneva or via videoconference present an opportunity to gain deeper insights into the Initiative's workings.
A Comprehensive Perspective on Advantages
Unlocking Overall Benefits:
Enjoy exceptional economic development, sovereignty, safety, and civil rights advantages 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 their governmental and private sector needs.
Radically mitigate the immense risks to human safety and AI’s extremely unaccountable concentration of power and wealth. Co-lead in shaping AI's ethics, limits, privacy, security, safety and accountability to realise its potential to bring astounding benefits to your citizens and humanity, in a mutually advantageous way for all.
Increase 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 also possible. Early state participants will have a guaranteed speaking slot on day one and will be more prominently displayed.
Participate in co-designing the Initiative and, therefore, in the design of global governance of AI and the constituent process leading up to it. Early participants will be accorded privileged visibility.
Learn about the current initiative and prospects of global AI governance, AI safety, and the Initiative.
Exclusive Benefits for Pioneers: the first 7 participant states will enjoy unique 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 enjoy advantages and discounts concerning 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. Early participants will be more prominently included in the Summit, its documents, and webpages, and they will be guaranteed a speaking slot on day 1 of the Summit.
Contact us to discuss possible collaboration:
partnerships@trustlesscomputing.org