Less opinion. More facts. You judge.

AI raises questions that concern all of us, today and at later stages of its development. We put together what is known, with sources, and we say how good the evidence is: has it happened, was it shown in tests, or is it an argument about the future?

We do hold a position, and we say so openly: AI needs regulation, and its development should slow down, so that not only research but also society can keep pace. How soon and how strictly we ask for this will be decided by our members in a published survey; the first round is still to come.

Our name, We rule AI, says the same: people should decide about AI, and AI should get rules. Read what it means.

What is on record

• Governments. In November 2023, 28 countries and the EU, including the US, China and Germany, signed the Bletchley Declaration. It acknowledges that frontier AI has the “potential for serious, even catastrophic, harm” and that risks may arise from “unintended issues of control”. Source
• People building AI. In May 2023, leading AI scientists and company leaders, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis, signed a statement that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war. Source
• International experts. The first full International AI Safety Report (January 2025) was led by Yoshua Bengio, written by over 100 experts and backed by 30 countries and international organisations. Source
• How fast AI’s effects will arrive is contested. In April 2025, the researchers Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor argued that AI should be seen as a “normal technology” and that its transformative economic and societal impacts will unfold slowly, “on the timescale of decades”. Source

What we do

• Inform. Clear, sourced explanations, from the dangers of today’s models to possible future stages.
• Tell stories. Short stories, films and illustrations that make facts reach people. Our rule: fiction is labelled, and every story links its facts.
• Connect. Groups for countries and audiences that bring the conversation to their own communities.

What you can do

Check a source, talk about it with someone, or get involved.