The Campaign for AI Safety (CAS) was an Australian unincorporated association founded on April 3, 2023 by Nik Samoylov, a market research entrepreneur. Its mission was to build public understanding of AI safety and advocate for a moratorium on large-scale AI capabilities research and development. The campaign ran public messaging initiatives including billboards in San Francisco, radio ads in Australia, parliamentary petitions in the UK and Australia, policy submissions to governments in the US, UK, and Australia, and a student law competition for drafting AI safety treaties. In 2024, CAS merged with the Existential Risk Observatory (ERO), a Dutch foundation based in Amsterdam, which now continues the combined work of both organizations.
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CAS believed that the public and policymakers were insufficiently aware of the existential risks posed by advanced AI, and that raising awareness would create political pressure for regulatory intervention. By testing and refining messaging about AI x-risk, running public campaigns (billboards, radio ads, petitions), and engaging directly with government policy processes, CAS aimed to shift public opinion and create conditions for governments to impose a moratorium on large-scale AI capabilities development. The underlying logic was that regulatory action would only follow sufficient public and political will, making grassroots communication and advocacy a necessary precondition for safety-oriented AI governance.
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- Apr 2, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC
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- Mar 19, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC