Collective Action for Existential Safety (CAES)
Collective Action for Existential Safety (CAES) is an initiative of the Center for Existential Safety, a nonprofit being formed in the United States. Founded by James Norris in early 2025, CAES aims to galvanize individuals, organizations, and nations to take concrete steps toward ensuring humanity's survival this decade. Its flagship output is a regularly updated list of 80+ practical actions spanning personal, organizational, and policy levels. CAES also runs monthly coordination calls for existential safety organization leaders, periodic all-hands community calls, and collaborative safety calls specifically for employees at frontier AI labs.
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CAES believes that existential risks from AI, nuclear weapons, and engineered pandemics are largely a coordination problem: the actions needed to reduce these risks are known but not widely taken. By publishing a comprehensive, practical action list and convening regular coordination infrastructure (calls for org leaders, frontier AI staff, and the broader community), CAES aims to lower the barrier to action, reduce duplication of effort among existential safety organizations, and accelerate the adoption of safety-oriented practices at the individual, organizational, and national levels. The causal chain runs from awareness and coordination to concrete behavior change across multiple actor types, ultimately increasing the probability that humanity navigates this decade without catastrophic loss.
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 9:48 PM UTC
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- Mar 19, 2026, 10:30 PM UTC