International AI Governance Alliance (IAIGA)

The International AI Governance Alliance (IAIGA) is a non-profit organization being incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland. It operates as an initiative of the Center for Existential Safety and was introduced publicly in February 2025 via posts on the Effective Altruism Forum and LessWrong. IAIGA was founded by James Norris, who also serves as Executive Director of the Center for Existential Safety and leads several other existential safety-focused organizations including Upgradable and Survival Sanctuaries. Norris has co-founded or helped build 27 organizations across sectors including entrepreneurship, effective altruism, and social innovation, and previously helped establish EA Global, the international conference series for the effective altruism movement. IAIGA proposes a Collective Commitment on AI for humanity, through which participants commit to adhere to internationally accepted safety standards for AI research and development and to an internationally accepted distribution system for AI-derived economic benefits. The organization advocates for an immediate global pause on large-scale frontier AI development until safety can be proven with high certainty, arguing that many experts believe humanity faces a plausible extinction risk from rapidly advancing AI capabilities. The organization is building a team of divergent thinkers and builders including AI safety and global governance experts, and is collecting petition signatures from citizens of individual nations (targeting 5,000 signatures per nation, with an overall goal of 1,000,000 signatures) to encourage national leaders to commit to IAIGA's proposed standards. IAIGA welcomes financial support with a policy of not accepting donations from individuals or organizations that cause a net increase in existential risks, and commits to publishing all donations and financial records publicly. As of its February 2025 launch, IAIGA described itself as a contingency 'Plan B' that would be ready to move rapidly if and when conditions become more receptive to multilateral AI governance approaches.