Stop AGI is a project and website launched by Andrea Miotti in April 2023 to communicate the extinction risks of artificial general intelligence to the public and propose policy solutions to prevent its development.
Stop AGI is a project and website launched by Andrea Miotti in April 2023 to communicate the extinction risks of artificial general intelligence to the public and propose policy solutions to prevent its development.
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Updated 04/02/26Stop AGI is an unincorporated association of people involved in AI research and governance who are concerned about the risks of advanced artificial intelligence. Andrea Miotti started Stop AGI in April 2023, with Jason Hausenloy, Claire Dennis, and several others contributing to the project. The initiative operates primarily as an educational website (stop.ai) that explains why artificial general intelligence poses an extinction risk to humanity, how the current trajectory of AI development got underway, and what governments and citizens can do about it. The project is closely associated with Andrea Miotti's broader advocacy work. Miotti previously served as Head of Strategy and Governance at the AI startup Conjecture before founding Stop AGI. He also co-authored a proposal for a Multinational AGI Consortium (MAGIC) — a governance framework under which an exclusive international body would oversee advanced AI development under a global moratorium on competing efforts. Stop AGI later evolved into or contributed to ControlAI, a UK not-for-profit company limited by guarantee that Miotti founded and leads as Executive Director. ControlAI pursues a more institutionally-focused strategy, engaging UK and EU parliamentarians and civil society on AI extinction risk. ControlAI's Substack newsletter had over 121,000 subscribers as of late 2025, and more than 60 UK parliamentarians have publicly acknowledged AI as an extinction risk through their campaigns. Stop AGI and ControlAI occupy a distinct niche in the AI safety landscape: unlike purely technical safety research organizations, they focus on advocacy for an outright prohibition on superintelligence development through international law and coordination, drawing on precedents like the Montreal Protocol and nuclear non-proliferation regimes.
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Updated 04/02/26Stop AGI believes that superintelligent AI poses a near-term extinction-level risk, and that the only adequate response is a legally binding international prohibition on its development — not just safety guidelines or incremental regulation. The causal chain runs from public education and awareness-raising, through citizen mobilization and contact with elected representatives, to political will among governments to negotiate and enforce a global moratorium. Concretely, they advocate for: (1) a global cap on computing power used to train AI systems, (2) affirmative safety evaluations before any such training is allowed, and (3) a multinational institution (MAGIC) to democratically oversee any remaining advanced AI research. By drawing analogies to the Montreal Protocol and nuclear non-proliferation, they argue that international coordination on an existential technology risk is politically feasible if enough public and parliamentary pressure is brought to bear.
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