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Press releases
These are our recent press releases:
Prominent Scientists, Faith Leaders, Policymakers and Artists Call for a Prohibition on Superintelligence, as Poll Shows Americans Don’t Want It
Initial signatories include AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, leading media voices Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck, Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice, business trailblazers Steve Wozniak and Richard Branson, five Nobel Laureates, former Irish President Mary Robinson, actors Stephen Fry and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and hundreds of others.
27 March, 2026
Governor DeSantis Directs Florida State Agencies to Partner with Future of Life Institute to Shield Families from AI Harm
The collaboration will produce a Crisis Counselor Training Curriculum and a statewide AI Harms Reporting Form targeting dangerous AI companion applications
9 March, 2026
“This is What it Means to be Pro-Human” Declares Broad Coalition of Conservative, Progressive, and Civil Society Groups in Statement of Shared Principles on AI
Amid a rising backlash to Silicon Valley overreach, a remarkably diverse group from across the political spectrum announced a set of AI principles to clearly define the goals of the emerging pro-human movement.
4 March, 2026
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Statements
These are our recent statements:
Statement: We must pressure AI companies to immediately limit the use of recursive self improvement
FLI's Director of Policy Mark Brakel responds to "A Call for Control of Frontier AI Models", joint statement by heads of states.
28 September, 2026
Government leaders call for treaty negotiations on autonomous weapons for the first time
At a New York forum cosponsored by six governments, the ICRC, The Elders and FLI, ministers and UN officials called on states to begin negotiating a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons at the CCW Review Conference in November.
28 September, 2026
Statement: World leaders at the UN call to rein in superintelligence race
Calls for pacing, coordination, and capacity-building are welcome, but the urgency of our shared situation requires practical solutions.
24 September, 2026


