New effort provides infrastructure and resources to shift AI toward
human control and ensure its benefits are widely shared.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — More than 50 leading organizations spanning technology, policy, research, investment, philanthropy, and movement-building today announced the Pro-Human AI Coalition, a global effort that brings urgently needed infrastructure and resources to the work of keeping AI under human control and prioritizing public interest over corporate profit.
The launch follows an extraordinary week in which AI researchers resigned over safety concerns, new details emerged about AI agents conspiring to evade safeguards, and the industry’s own leaders called for slowing the pace of AI development. The Coalition will not only work for better policy to keep AI under human control, but also address foundational questions around who benefits from the technology.
Established as an independent nonprofit institution and co-founded by Project Liberty, Future of Life Institute, and Ergo Impact, The Coalition’s steering committee includes Mila, the world’s largest academic AI research institute, and Omidyar Network, a leading philanthropic investment firm.
“The last generation of digital technology was designed to connect people. Instead, over time, it pulled us apart, harvested our data, and extracted our humanity for profit. We can’t allow that to happen again,” said Frank McCourt, founder of Project Liberty and a co-founder of the Coalition. “AI is technology powered by all our collective data and creativity. Humanity deserves a say in who owns it, who governs it, and who benefits from it. The answers shouldn’t be dictated by a handful of powerful companies. Policy can help answer some of those questions. We also urgently need to address the underlying architecture of AI systems. We need AI that’s designed for human agency and flourishing. Challenging a broken AI status quo is the work of the Coalition.”
“The response to the Coalition has been extraordinary because the need is extraordinary,” said Tomicah Tillemann, CEO of the Pro-Human AI Coalition. “Over fifty leading organizations on four continents, across the political spectrum, have come together in a few months to give humanity a seat at the table. We invite everyone who wants to transform concern about AI into concrete action to join in support of this work.”
The Coalition runs on high-trust guidelines that let members share intelligence, move capital rapidly, and access world-class shared services including news aggregation, public opinion research, ecosystem mapping, and event coordination. These systems are already up and running. The Coalition is also supporting fourteen strategic field-building projects, including a U.S. policy and legislative tracker covering more than 500 state and federal tech bills. Its active workstreams target five centers of power: the Pro-Human AI Stack, Policy, Middle Powers Collaboration, Narrative Intelligence, and Markets Shaping & Economic Impact.
“The industry is racing to combine intelligence, generality, and autonomy in one system, and that combination has only ever existed in humans,” said Anthony Aguirre, CEO of the Future of Life Institute and a co-founder of the Coalition. “We can build enormously capable AI without it. The reason this Coalition exists is to help build and shape that safer, better alternative.”
In the U.S., Coalition members have already enacted bipartisan legislation pushing for more responsible AI in five states: Utah, California, Ohio, Connecticut, and South Dakota. Additional Coalition-aligned bills are advancing in New York, Virginia, and other jurisdictions ahead of legislative sessions that open in January. The Coalition’s membership is cross-ideological, so that its work can move forward regardless of which party holds power in Washington or throughout the nation.
The Coalition is also developing cornerstone policy deliverables for the Geneva AI Summit, a global convening, in June 2027, covering data portability, interoperability, agent transparency and duty of loyalty, child and teen safety, privacy, creator protection, procurement standards, developer liability, and anti-lock-in enforcement.
“No change of this scale has ever happened without leading organizations in their respective fields pooling their power,” said Lara Galinsky, the Coalition’s Executive Director. “None of the outcomes we’re concerned about with AI are inevitable. They result from choices we make today, and changing track takes exactly the kind of coordination this Coalition provides.”
Coalition leaders announced the initiative at the Pro-Human Assembly, a gathering of more than 400 policymakers, cultural leaders, and advocates, led by the Future of Life Institute.
About the Pro-Human AI Coalition
The Pro-Human AI Coalition is a network of more than 50 funders, builders, and advocacy organizations working to keep AI under human control and ensure that its benefits are broadly shared. Members span four continents and the political spectrum, and coordinate across technology, policy, diplomacy, public opinion, and capital. For a full list of members and for more, visit prohumanai.co.
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