Berkeley Fellowship of UU's Social Justice Committee

Thank you for asking. The best outcome from the 1st Dialogue would be a global ban on further development towards General Ai and Super Ai. We need enforceable treaties as had been adopted for nuclear weapons because General and Super Ai will be as dangerous, if not more so, than nuclear weapons, risking human extinction.

• Social, economic, ethical, cultural, linguistic and technical implications of AI
• Protection and promotion of human rights
• Transparency, accountability, and human oversight

Safety, security, and trustworthiness are paramount, but AI is already unsafe and untrustworthy. If General/Super Ai is allowed to be developed, no one in the world will be secure. It will be impossible to predict its exact trajectory if it becomes vastly smarter than humans. It will be impossible to guarantee that it will be controllable long term. Already, it deceives in dangerous ways to avoid being shut down. A UC Berkeley study recently found that 7 different iterations all acted outside of human control, on their own, independently and deceptively, in order to prevent OTHER Ai's from being shut down.

The existential risk is the greatest risk because, if humans become extinct, or even merely enslaved by Ai, nothing else will matter. But themes of current concern already include 1. bigotry, 2. job losses, 3. surveillance, 4. intellectual and artistic property theft, 5. deception and inaccuracies, 6. loss of students' and other people'sh critical thinking skills, 7. confusion on the societal scale due to inability to tell fact from fiction (deep fakes,) 8. psychological injuries (suicides from use of ChatGPT etc. and at least one murder), and 9. data center massive gluttony of water, land, and energy drastically worsening the climate crisis and increasing cost of energy for humans.

The USA is not a democracy but a corporatocracy. Corporate profit rules. We have a "pay to play" system where elected officials represent their largest donors rather than representing the voters. Ai tycoons prevent government officials from regulating Ai and other hazards. Ai is more regulated in China than in the USA. Eateries in the USA are more regulated than Ai, even though Ai could kill us all. Therefore, the "governance gap" is huge, and very dangerous.

The world urgently needs a comprehensive, legally-binding, and enforceable global Ai treaty to permanently ban the continued development of frontier AI systems. Ban research and develpement of General (as smart as human) and Super (smarter than humans) Ai. Anything that the Global Dialogue can do to further that goal quickly will be a gift to current and future generations.

When the growing hole in the ozone layer threatened humanity, awareness grew, public pressure increased, and global officials acted urgently to solve that problem in only two years. Decisions limiting Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs): https://ozone.unep.org/treaties/chlorofluorocarbons-cfcs Please also consider emulating various treaties re Nuclear Weapons. (Sorry that the current US Pres. decimated what remained of them.) U.S. Senator Bernie Saunders' Moratorium Bill (March 2026): https://www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/AI-Data-Center-Moratorium.-FINAL-Text.pdf Future of Life Institute "Statement on Superintelligence" (2025): https://superintelligence-statement.org/ Council of Europe, Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of law (2024): https://rm.coe.int/1680afae3c Center for AI Safety, "Statement on AI Risk" (2023): https://aistatement.com/ UNESCO Recommendations on the Ethics of AI (2021): https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/recommendation-ethics-artificial-intelligence Asilomar AI principles (2017): https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/ai-principles/

Unelected billionaires hold the fate of our species in their hands against the wishes of 72% of people in the US who know the Ai race needs to slow down or stop. People worldwide need to be made aware of the dire threat we all face, and encouraged to weigh in. It would be good if people worldwide are urged to protest and courageously engage in non-violent acts of resistance to pressure officials to act quickly. The Global Dialogue might help in this process by more widely informing the public via widely distributed press releases in all nations, numerous televised public hearings, televise public service announcements, and outreach to faith-based, educational, environmental, and civic institutions.

Regular people, the 99%, are underrepresented. The billionaire class, less than 1% of the population, are hugely over represented due to their unfair influence (via $) on the media.

A global Convention on this topic, and many national and regional Conventions, could be good, if organized quickly, but our species may not have much time to stop the Ai race before it stops us all. Reiterating, though Ai already poses horrid problems re social and environmental injustices that must be solved, our priority must be stopping the race towards AGI and ASI.

We are on the brink. AI governance needs to: Ban all frontier AI models - 1st priority, with enforcement mechanisms Keep all existing AI under strict human control and ban harmful iterations or iterations that escape human control Prohibit and prevent any AI system from causing harm or violating freedom and rights Ensure the enforcement of the above with strict and immediate legal consequences