Grassroots movement demanding an international pause on training the most powerful AI systems.
PauseAI organises legal, nonviolent street protests asking governments to halt the race to ever-more-powerful AI. It grew from a Dutch founder's initiative into chapters worldwide.
Focus
- Pause/moratorium
- International governance
- Compute governance
Funding, as far as we know
Future of Life Institute is the largest single donor; small donations - https://fortune.com/2026/04/15/pause-ai-and-stop-ai-meet-the-anti-ai-groups-facing-questions-after-the-attack-on-sam-altman/
What they've actually done
Coordinated simultaneous protests in 13 cities ahead of the Seoul summit
13 May 2024
Held the largest AI-safety protest to date: 300+ people marched past OpenAI, Google and Meta offices in London with Stuart Russell speaking
28 February 2026
Condemned the April 2026 attack on Sam Altman's home and stated the suspect was never a member
15 April 2026