AI 2030

AI 2030 is the youth-led international AI-policy platform published by Encode Justice on 16 May 2024 — an "intergenerational call for global AI policies" assembled by Encode Justice's under-25 authoring team and co-signed at launch by more than 300 academic, civil-society, and policy figures including Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Mary Robinson, Audrey Tang, Daron Acemoglu, Daniel Kokotajlo, Margaret Mitchell, Yi Zeng, Maya Wiley, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The platform was released the week of the 21-22 May 2024 AI Seoul Summit as Encode Justice's substantive policy ask of the Bletchley-Seoul-Paris summit cycle, and is the organisation's flagship publication-side artefact in the corpus — the document the chapters cite, the demand structure the federal-coalition work points back to, and the youth-led-policy-platform register's foundational entry.

Its authoring team is named on the platform itself as five Encode Justice members under 25: Sneha Revanur (then 19), Sunny Gandhi (22), Luke Drago (22), Adam Billen (22), and Lysander Mawby (22). The platform is signatory-driven in the open-letter mode rather than singly-authored: the under-25 authors hold the byline, but the document's institutional weight comes from the intergenerational signatory block — established figures across AI research, human-rights diplomacy, economics, and the arts signing alongside the youth authors — and from a public sign-on mechanism that grew the over-300 signatory count on the platform site beyond the named launch list.

What AI 2030 asks for

The document is organised around five pillars — Build Trust and Human Connection; Protect Fundamental Rights and Freedoms; Secure Our Economic Future; Ban Fully Autonomous Weapons of Destruction; Cooperate for a Safer Today and Tomorrow — with 22 specific policy goals distributed across them.

The Build Trust and Human Connection pillar (nine goals) sets the platform's most-cited demand block: mandatory disclosure of AI-generated political advertising, measures to "identify and limit the spread of deepfake content" with developer accountability when prevention fails, labelling AI outputs with a "well-established warning symbol or label" and disclosure of the originating model, clear continuous indicators when users are interacting with a machine, a user right to opt out of embedded AI systems, agency and ownership over personal data, public-education investment in AI-literacy, and large-scale public investment in research to defend authenticity. The pillar reads as the platform's response to the deepfake-and-disinformation discourse that dominated the March 2023 Pause Giant AI Experiments open letter cycle and the 2024 election-year framing of generative-AI risk.

The Protect Fundamental Rights and Freedoms pillar (four goals) asks for publicly available impact assessments and independent audits for rights-impacting AI systems, continuous post-deployment monitoring with intervention authority, a right to meaningful redress when AI systems are shown to have violated rights, and public funding for bias-detection and equity-by-design technical research. Secure Our Economic Future (three goals) calls for R&D redirection towards "AI applications whose fundamental purpose is to enhance, not supplant, human capabilities", a global retraining fund focused on Global South upskilling, and active consideration of "bold, innovative policy ideas" the platform names including universal basic income and cooperative-ownership models.

Ban Fully Autonomous Weapons of Destruction (two goals) is the platform's intersection point with the humanitarian-disarmament track: AI 2030 asks states to ratify an international treaty prohibiting "the creation, manufacturing, and deployment of fully autonomous, offensive weapon systems that lack meaningful human control" and to invest in AI applications that encourage peacekeeping and conflict resolution — a direct alignment with the Stop Killer Robots coalition's campaign for a meaningful-human-control treaty. Cooperate for a Safer Today and Tomorrow (four goals) brackets the institutional-architecture demands: a global authority "to minimize the dangers of AI, particularly foundation models" with safety standards and enforcement, a CERN-modelled global AI-safety research institute, distribution mechanisms so AI's benefits are "more evenly distributed" with attention to environmental harms, and domestic regulatory rules including foundation-model tracking and developer liability.

The platform's framing language is built around the structural argument Sneha Revanur made on launch: "we're the generation that's actually going to inherit the impacts of these technologies", and the demands are accordingly fixed to a 2030 horizon rather than to an immediate legislative file. The signatory model — youth authors plus an intergenerational signatory block — is the platform's design solution to the legitimacy gap a youth-only manifesto would otherwise face on AI-governance questions whose technical and diplomatic registers sit outside the under-25 cohort's standing in those venues.

How the platform has been carried

AI 2030 is the substantive policy reference behind Encode Justice's two-year-and-counting federal and state advocacy slate. The platform was released the week of the 21-22 May 2024 AI Seoul Summit — the Bletchley follow-on under joint UK-South Korea co-chairmanship — as Encode Justice's youth-led substantive ask of the summit's leaders' track, and was carried by the press circuit into the summit's discourse window through the South China Morning Post, InsideAIPolicy, and a series of allied amplifications including the Center for Humane Technology. Allied youth-led groups including Design It For Us subsequently joined as co-signatories, and the open sign-on mechanism let the platform accumulate signatories beyond the launch block over the months that followed.

The platform's demand structure has visibly shaped the Encode Justice work product in the period since. The deepfake-and-political-ads pillar tracks forward into Encode's 2024 Capitol Hill Summit on AI-enabled child sexual exploitation and the federal TAKE IT DOWN Act coalition work; the foundation-model-governance and developer-liability framings track forward into Encode's co-sponsorship of California SB 1047, the 2024 frontier-AI safety bill vetoed by Governor Gavin Newsom; the autonomous-weapons pillar tracks forward into Encode's coalition role on the FY2025 National Defense Authorization Act provisions on AI in nuclear weapons command-and-control; the "redress and accountability for rights-impacting AI" pillar tracks forward into Encode's amicus participation in Musk v. Altman and its broader federal-pre-emption-resistance work. In this sense AI 2030 is not only a moment-in-time signatory document but the organising spine of Encode Justice's policy programme — the foundational set of demands the organisation has been operationalising in successive specific legislative and litigation venues.

Position in the corpus

Within the corpus this is the first Encode Justice-side publication-class entity and the foundational artefact of the youth-led policy platform register. It sits as the youth-led counterpart to the corpus's other manifesto-type policy artefacts of the same 2023-2026 frontier-AI-policy cycle: the Civil society calls on the EU to put fundamental rights first in the AI Act (a joint statement co-ordinated by EDRi and 119 co-signatories on a specific legislative file), the PauseAI Proposal (the protest-and-treaty federation's living institutional demand structure), and A Narrow Path: How to Secure Our Future (ControlAI's analytic three-phase policy plan with named authorship). The four together bracket the corpus's representation of the international AI-policy-platform register — civil-society-coalition (EDRi), grassroots-pause-federation (PauseAI), inside-game-policy-shop (ControlAI), and youth-led-intergenerational-coalition (AI 2030 / Encode Justice).

The platform sits adjacent to but structurally distinct from the Pause Giant AI Experiments open letter — the Future of Life Institute's March 2023 open letter — which is anchored in the corpus as a Message on propagation rather than as a Publication on policy substance; AI 2030 is the policy-substance artefact of the youth-led wing of the same broader make-AI-good discourse the FLI open letter opened. As a publication type AI 2030 fills the youth-led-policy-platform slot the corpus had not yet covered: a manifesto-form policy document whose authority comes from the under-25 authoring team it explicitly represents and from the intergenerational signatory base that signed alongside, rather than from a coalition of organisations or a single analytic shop.

In the corpus's mapping of the grassroots make-AI-good movement, AI 2030 is the document the publication slate points to for "what does the youth-led wing of the movement ask AI policy to do by the end of the decade" — the standing answer that Encode Justice's chapters, legislative campaigns, amicus interventions, and intergenerational coalition work all reference back to.