Track Record

In response to the media wave following Jacob Coxon leaving Anthropic over existential safety concerns, our volunteers organised an emergency protest in four days, with speakers ranging from AI safety researchers to our own volunteers. We had around 100 people show up at this short notice, with coverage from ITV News, Channel 4, the Guardian, and others.

Our main message to Andy Burnham was to convene an international pause treaty summit, putting the UK's G20 presidency to good use.

We helped PauseAI Global to deliver the next PauseCon in London, bringing around 100 volunteers together from around the world and running workshops on social media management, communicating with news outlets, and strategy, among other topics. Many new connections were formed and by the end, people had been invited into high-impact roles that they would not have otherwise found.

To finish off, we held a Parliamentary conference with audience Q&A on AI policy, featuring:

• Dame Chi Onwurah, Chair of the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.
• Iqbal Mohamed MP, led the December 2025 Westminster Hall debate on AI safety.
• Professor Stuart Russell, world-renowned AI scientist.
• Lord Tim Clement-Jones, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence.
• Lord Lionel Tarassenko, Crossbench peer and President of Reuben College, Oxford.
• Brando Benifei MEP, Co-rapporteur and lead architect of the EU AI Act.

Topics covered ranged from the fact crimes are being committed, but governments are unable to hold anyone accountable because AI companies are not liable for the crimes of their AIs, to what needs to happen for an international superintelligence ban to come into play.

Volunteers from across the country contacted their Members of Parliament asking to meet at the House of Commons. We met with the following MPs (or their staff members):

• Anneliese Dodds MP, for Oxford East (Labour).
• Sarah Olney MP, for Richmond Park (Liberal Democrats).
• Jeremy Corbyn MP, for Islington North (Your Party).
• Monica Harding MP, for Esher and Walton (Liberal Democrats).
• Chris Vince MP, for Harlow (Labour).
• Siân Berry MP, for Brighton Pavillion (Green).
• Dame Meg Hillier MP, for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Labour Co-op).

Our conversations were broadly successful, resulting in Chris Vince and Siân Berry writing letters to Kanishka Narayan MP (Minister for Artificial Intelligence), Anneliese Dodds and Siân Berry signing PauseAI UK's open letter, and other MPs requested further meetings and briefings.

We co-organised a march past the offices of OpenAI and Big Tech companies in King's Cross, London. It was the largest ever protest focused exclusively on the risks of AI, with around 300 people marching and media coverage in MIT Technology Review, The Independent, The Wall Street Journal and others.

The other organisers included Pull the Plug, a new group focused on the existing harms of AI. We consider the march a great success of coalition building between the historically opposed AI ethics and AI safety interests, with PauseAI and Pull the Plug represented in equal numbers.

We delivered the next PauseCon in Brussels on behalf of Global and again ran two days of training workshops for PauseAI organisers from around the world.

The final day included a public conference in the European Parliament, featuring several prominent speakers, including:

• Professor Stuart Russell, author of the authoritative textbook on AI.
• Brando Benifei MEP, primary architect of the EU AI Act.
• Victor Negrescu MEP, Vice-President of the European Parliament.
• Risto Uuk, Head of European Policy at the Future of Life Institute.

Brando Benifei discussed the strengths and limitations of the EU AI Act candidly and argued that the Act is not merely a product regulation, but that the code of practice can be extended to cover internal deployment within AI companies. We hope that PauseAI will be able to work with Mr Benifei to help see such changes implemented.

Many volunteer projects were initiated over the weekend and several attendees have since held meetings with their own MEPs to follow up on the issues discussed.

We proposed and helped to organise a Westminster Hall debate in Parliament on AI Safety. We wrote a memo which was sent out to all MPs prior to the debate and also helped to draft some proposition speeches, putting us in a strong position to work with those MPs when proposing amendments to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill.

We held a screening in the UK Parliament of filmmaker Michaël Trazzi's documentary about SB-1047, the proposed California AI legislation. This helped to educate MPs and Peers about the sorts of AI legislation that could be in the UK bill, and the battle with Big Tech that they should expect to face.

Throughout the year, we regularly held social events, which helped to strengthen the sense of community that keeps people actively involved in PauseAI for months and years. One highlight was the book launch party for If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies in September.

We published an open letter signed by over 60 UK politicians, in response to Google DeepMind failing to uphold its AI safety commitments. Several of the MPs who signed later spoke in the Westminster Hall debate that we helped to organise in December.

The article in TIME that broke the story established for the first time that Google DeepMind did not provide the UK AISI with pre-deployment access to Gemini 2.5 Pro. Notably, Google did provide AISI with pre-deployment access to Gemini 3 Pro a couple of months after the letter was published.