Every powerful technology in history has had an off-switch. AI companies are racing to build systems that might not.

Nuclear plants have shut down protocols. Airplanes have manual overrides. Even your smoke detector has a test button. But some of the most powerful AI systems being built right now are explicitly designed to resist being stopped, to improve themselves without human sign-off, and to operate faster than any human can review.

It's a basic engineering standard we already apply to everything else that can harm us. Nobody, not even tech billionaires, should get to skip that step just because they're in a hurry to win a race.

That's why AI experts, technologists, artists, parents, workers, faith leaders and scholars have created the "Pro-Human AI Declaration", a strong demand to decision-makers that we the people be at the centre of AI development – not just billionaires like Elon Musk and Sam Altman.

By adding your name, you will help make this the largest public campaign on AI in history. You'll make it possible for this declaration to be delivered to governments and company executives around the world, and give lawmakers a political mandate to pass laws that protect humanity from reckless AI.