Pro-Human AI Declaration

The Pro-Human AI Declaration is a cross-ideological civil society statement finalized in January 2026, asserting that artificial intelligence must serve humanity rather than replace it. Its 33 principles are organized under five pillars: Keeping Humans in Charge; Avoiding Concentration of Power; Protecting the Human Experience; Human Agency and Liberty; and Responsibility and Accountability for AI Companies. Specific demands include mandatory "bot-or-not" disclosure labeling, criminal liability for AI executives responsible for egregious AI harm, and a moratorium on deploying superintelligent architectures until scientific consensus and democratic approval are achieved.

The coalition was assembled by the Future of Life Institute with the deliberate exclusion of tech-industry representatives. Signatories span the ideological spectrum: AI researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, conservative commentators Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck, former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice, consumer advocates Ralph Nader and Meredith Whittaker, the AFL-CIO Tech Institute, SAG-AFTRA, the American Federation of Teachers, Public Citizen, and more than 40 organizations in total. Polling showed 83% of Americans agreeing with the declaration's leading principle, "Humanity must remain in control of AI."

The declaration anchored the Protect What's Human campaign, launched February 9, 2026 with up to $8 million in advertising and outreach across Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, and North Carolina — targeting constituents outside the tech-policy centers to demonstrate that support for AI regulation is bipartisan and broad.