When Trump reaches for a bold AI deal with Xi, a proper and shared plan should already be on his desk.

We are an international coalition drafting the US strategic memo position for a Deal of the Century on AI that starts small, scales fast, and holds - and is shared or shareable by a critical mass of  key humanist US AI powerbrokers.

At the White House in September, Xi came ready to keep AI "under human control." Trump wanted AI left "exactly where it is." They settled for a Super Intelligence Dialogue and an incident channel — a phone with no rulebook. Yet the labs are ever more loudly asking for bold global regulation, and capabilities and accidents keep accelerating. And Trump moves fast once he decides: Operation Warp Speed is the proof.

When events will lead him to consider a bold AI deal with Xi, he’ll rely on the advisors that were closest and on purpose-built strategic memos. We are drafting one: a text that reconciles safety, national security, economy, stock market and the President's base. A plan a critical mass of US AI power brokers is ready to support, and one Xi can largely agree upon.

356-page Strategic Memo · 150 pages of AI power-broker profiles · 95+ advisors and staff of US AI power brokers engaged · all in, $7,500/mo burn-rate

Laser-focused on The Deal since 2024

While many are realizing the all-important issue of getting Trump ink a extrardinarily bold AI Deal with Xi, that has been has been our sole focus for almost 2 years. On December 18, 2024, our coalition launched with an Open Call for a Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI whose abstract read:

"We call on all heads of state, President-Elect Trump and President Xi, and their advisors and security agencies to engage in an open global treaty-making process for safe and fair AI of radically unprecedented scope, urgency and effectiveness."

By February 2025, while we started with multilateral hopes, we realized that it would all come down to whether Trump and Xi would co-lead a bold and proper AI treaty, and that the bottleneck was Washington: one President, and the dozen people who shape or could shape his AI policy. So, we dived for 6 months on a uniquely detailed strategic memo to persuade him and those uniquely placed individuals,

In September 2026, at the White House, Xi told Trump that "AI must be kept under human control." Trump was not ready to say yes. We are preparing for the day he is — so that the treaty, when it comes, is timely and sound.

What we built

For nearly two years we have assembled assets that, as far as we know, no other organization holds in one place:

• Unmatched Knowledge Base. A 356-page Strategic Memo based on 850+ sources, 24 contributors, regularly updated via executive summary updates. Covers the technical and constituent challenges of a treaty of this scope: verification and enforcement, secure diplomatic infrastructure, treaty-making models, sequencing from bilateral to global, safeguards against capture.

• Power-broker intelligence. The memo also included 150 pages of profiles of a dozen officials, lab leaders, media, political and religious figures who shape Trump's AI policy — including their own stated predictions about AI.

• A network one step from the decision. Remotely and via two US tours, we engaged with 95+ advisors, staff and envoys engaged — including over 30 hours with senior AI staff or advisors who report directly to four of those power brokers.

• Deep roots. Since 2015, our director has led pioneering work on verifiable, trustworthy IT and its international governance — via the Trustless Computing Association, its TRUSTLESS.AI spin-off, and the Free and Safe in Cyberspace series.

Where we stand

We are for a treaty — not for any treaty. Our compass is closest to OpenAI’s and Anthropic's current positions: take catastrophic risk extremely seriously, deeply concerned about the prospects of an improper AI treaty, believe in astounding AI potential benefits, and want to prevent a dystopian human power grab. And one conviction of our own: a proper AI safety treaty and a durable citizen stake in AI's wealth need each other. Neither holds without the other.

Anthropic's Institute warns that "without a global coordination mechanism, companies and governments will have to make difficult decisions about safety while under competitive and geopolitical pressures." Jack  Dario Amodei wrote that "global pacing will require cooperation with China” .

We work where a lab cannot. We are independent of any lab's commercial interest, reach conservative-humanist and national-security circles, and are free to say plainly that only a US-China-led process gets signed.

The gap we fill

The AI-safety community and its philanthropies — Coefficient Giving above all — have funded a world-class body of safety science and brought AI's catastrophic risks into public debate. Far less has gone into the arena that now decides: the President who will shape AI policy until at least January 2029, and the dozen people he listens to. Others made that bet early. 

Nvidia's Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone at tech summits. Alumni of Peter Thiel's network hold key tech-policy posts (Memo v2.6). Both reaped outsized returns. We fill that gap at a tiny fraction of the cost — with one test for every step: could it fuel a treaty in the wrong direction? If so, we don't take it.

Preparedness beats prediction

Nobody knows whether the window opens before the G20 at Doral, after the next incident, or not at all. But if it opens, the President will turn to the people already in the room — today, those who call existential risks a "hoax." Left there, a treaty becomes a market-access deal with safety language bolted on. Relationships, trust and shelf-ready plans cannot be bought on demand in a crisis. 

They are built before. And if no window opens, they still pay off: key knowledge sharing and readiness of key advisors. In September 1945, War Secretary Stimson urged Truman to engage directly and primarily Moscow on an international control of nuclear weapons. He had the right idea, but not enough allies in Truman's cabinet. The moment passed, the race came, we got lucky, but the nuclear risk is higher today than it ever was.

Our role in the months ahead

A shelf-ready deal, by Doral. Between now and the G20 at Doral on December 14–15, we are turning our Strategic Memo into the document nobody else has written: a negotiating position that reconciles the President's goals — keep the boom, keep the lead, keep AI under control, avoid anything that looks like world government — with terms Xi could sign. Its first two pages read as a term sheet; the rest show which power brokers already stand close to it. We hope to get delegates of a few of those powerbrokers to co-edit it under the Chatham House Rule and bring others. If they converge, they can bring it to him together. If not, it stays on file, ready the day he reaches for it.

What it costs

Since 2024, we have raised $140,000 from top AI-safety scientists and expert regrantors, One full-time director, a few part’time junior researchers, plus 1,700+ hours of professional volunteering from our advisors and contributors. On a 7,500-mo birn’rate, our constraint is not access but bandwidth: warm channels to the AI-policy leads of four powerbrokers and too few hands to follow up. Donate · Join

Why "Baruch Plan"?

Why "Baruch Plan"? On June 14, 1946 — the day Donald Trump was born — the US proposed exclusive international control of all dangerous nuclear technology, the greatest deal ever proposed. It passed the UN Atomic Energy Commission 10–0, then stalled on Soviet opposition in the Security Council. We keep the name for one reason — scope. Nothing smaller than that ambition matches AI, even if the world must get there step by step, at a wartime pace. Jack Clark of Anthropic, Jaan Tallinn, ControlAI and Yoshua Bengio invoked it as a model for AI.

Where to go next

• The Deal of the Century — what we propose, and why it must start small and scale fast. Start here to judge whether we're right.

• Consultations — remote and in-person close-door engagements where power brokers' delegates co-edit the deal. Start here if you might contribute, or know who should.

• Achievements · Roadmap — what we've done on a shoestring, and what funding unlocks next.