About Us
In a Gist
The Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI is an international non-profit organization, headquartered in Rome, that seeks to empower and persuade key potential influencers of Trump's AI policy to champion a US-China-led global AI treaty to prevent both catastrophe and tyranny — via our flagship Deal of the Century initiative.
Our Mission
"We call on all heads of state, President Trump and President Xi, 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."
— Open Call for a Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI, December 2024
Who We Are
The Coalition is comprised of:
10 International NGOs Founding Members: Trustless Computing Association (Convenor, Switzerland), PauseAI Global (Netherlands), European Center for Peace and Development / UN University for Peace (Serbia), International Congress for the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (ICGAI, US), AITreaty.org (UK), and the Transnational Working Group on AI of the WFM (US) . Regular Members: Association for Long-Term Existence and Resilience (ALTER, Israel), Center for Existential Safety (US), Pause AI USA (US), Existential Risk Observatory (Netherlands). People and NGO Members →
40+ advisors, board members, and volunteers — current and former leaders from the UN, NSA, UBS, WEF, Ernst & Young, Yale, and Princeton. People and NGO Members →
Our Main Activities
Extend and update our 356-page Strategic Memo of The Deal of the Century (v2.6) that details the prospects of an informal humanist AI alliance to persuade Trump of an AI treaty, involving the Pope, Vance, and other humanist US leaders — and maps persuasion pathways for 12 key AI policy influencers. Read the memo → ·
24 expert contributors spanning AI safety, cybersecurity, global governance, philosophy, and US-China diplomacy. Meet the contributors →
Outreach and Engagements.
Our US Persuasion Tour in October 2025 in San Francisco and Washintong DC generated 85+ contacts and direct pathways to 2 of 12 target influencers. 2025 Achievements →
We’ll host Symposium and Roundtables in Rome on June 18-19 2026 and a follow-up in Washingotn DC in Fall 2026, for key humanist potential influencers of Trump's AI policy to come together to ensure the US will co-lead with China a bold and timely global AI treaty. 2026 Roadmap →
Legal & Governance
The Coalition is governed by a three-person board of directors, while several bodies have consultative functions. See a list and profile of the people and NGO members.
The Coalition was launched by six NGOs signing a partnership agreement on September 10th, 2024. It was formally established as an Italian non-profit following its seed funding from SFF:
Legal entity: Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI ETS
Address: Largo dell'Olgiata 15, isola 13-5d, 00123, Roma
Tax ID: 96624000582
Established: March 20, 2025
The Coalition is nonpartisan and apolitical, and does not lobby. We focus on the Trump administration because it leads the US during this decisive period, given the plausibility of short timelines to disruptive AI. Any references to communications with US officials concern exclusively informational and educational meetings about international diplomacy options — not lobbying.
Methods and Approach
We seek to be instrumental to facilitate the starting of a proper US-China-led treaty-making process — and enabling the specific individuals and entities that are much more influential than us to make it happen.
Our approach is unique: rather than drafting treaty text or writing policy papers, we have produced the most comprehensive analysis of the political landscape surrounding Trump's AI policy — profiling 12 key influencers, mapping their beliefs and incentives, and designing personalized persuasion strategies for each.
We operate across three tracks:
Research & Strategy. The Strategic Memo, updated continuously, serves as a living intelligence document on the AI treaty-making landscape. Version 3.0 is in active development.
Direct Engagement. Our October 2025 US Persuasion Tour generated 85+ contacts across San Francisco, Washington DC, and New York — including direct pathways to 2 of 12 target influencers. We have engaged staff or associates of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Microsoft AI, and multiple US Congressional offices.
Convenings. Our June 2026 Rome Symposium & Roundtables bring together AI safety experts, Vatican AI ethics leaders, treaty-making scholars, and US-China bridge figures for closed-door working sessions.
Why We're Credible
This is a fair question. We are a young, lean organization taking on an enormous challenge. Here is what separates us:
Depth of analysis. No other initiative has produced a comparable strategic analysis of the AI treaty-making landscape — covering the Vatican, the White House, top AI labs, and US-China dynamics in a single, integrated document reviewed by 24 expert contributors.
Breadth of coalition. Our 10 NGO members span the AI governance ecosystem — from the moratorium-focused (PauseAI) to the governance-focused (World Federalist Movement) to the treaty-focused (AItreaty.org). This breadth is rare and deliberate.
Strategic positioning in Rome. We are the only AI governance initiative headquartered in Rome with active relationships across both the Vatican AI ethics ecosystem and the US AI policy community. This positioning becomes especially significant as the Vatican's moral authority is increasingly recognized by US leaders — including VP Vance, who publicly deferred to the Pope on AI ethics in May 2025.
Backing. Seed funding from Jaan Tallinn's SFF — among the most selective funders in AI safety — validates the seriousness of our approach.