PauseAI US is hoping to scale up our grassroots efforts rapidly in the coming months. We are advocating both for a global AI Treaty to prevent the development of smarter-than-human AI until we know how to make it safe, and for federal and state-level initiatives to enact safeguards into frontier AI development.

Local organizing is the heart and soul of our movement – and grassroots pressure on lawmakers will play a pivotal role. Now is the best time to get involved.

We’re scaling our organizing efforts across the country and are looking for talented volunteers with knowledge of AI governance to run our local groups. This would be a part-time volunteer role, 5-10 hrs/week, and would involve some of the following:

• Run public-facing events on AI risks and policy solutions;
• Engage with federal and state elected officials, through grassroots lobbying campaigns and district meetings;
• Build relationships with local activist groups and media outlets;
• Coordinate on a national level to support key policy initiatives.

Note: Students and other applicants may also be interested in our summer volunteer internship: this opportunity has similar responsibilities, but is more structured (with regular skill-building workshops) and time-bound (meant to be compatible with the academic calendar).

Apply today!

Whether you’re an undergraduate student with a few months of campus organizing experience, or a seasoned advocate with decades of grassroots campaign expertise, we’d love to have you. 

If you have any questions, please leave a comment or email felix@pauseai-us.org.