International AI Governance Alliance (IAIGA)
The International AI Governance Alliance (IAIGA), pronounced 'eye-guh', is a newly formed non-profit being incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland as an initiative of the Center for Existential Safety. Founded by James Norris, IAIGA aims to create a global governance body dedicated to ensuring artificial intelligence benefits all sentient beings. It pursues two core goals: establishing an independent global collective intelligence organization to coordinate AI research, development, and distribution of AI-derived economic benefits; and developing and enforcing a legally-binding treaty with stringent safety standards for AI research and development. IAIGA is in an early exploration phase, having engaged with approximately 30 organizations including 10+ policy-focused groups.
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IAIGA believes that the current international environment is not yet ready for binding multilateral AI governance, but that a 'warning shot' event or near-catastrophe involving AI systems will create a window of political opportunity for rapid treaty adoption. By building the institutional groundwork, drafting treaty language, assembling experts, and cultivating a broad base of public and organizational support in advance, IAIGA positions itself to move quickly when that window opens. The causal chain runs from: (1) building awareness and consensus now through outreach and petition-gathering; (2) having a credible governance framework ready; (3) capitalizing on a post-crisis moment of political will to establish binding international safety standards and a supranational enforcement body; (4) thereby constraining the most dangerous frontier AI development and distributing AI benefits equitably, reducing extinction risk.
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 9:52 PM UTC
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- Mar 19, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC