About Us

In a Gist

The Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI is an international non-profit, headquartered in Rome, that equips and persuades the key influencers of Trump’s AI policy to champion a US-China-led global AI treaty — against both catastrophe and tyranny — through its 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:

·       8 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), and AITreaty.org (UK). Regular Members: Association for Long-Term Existence and Resilience (ALTER, Israel), Center for Existential Safety (US), Existential Risk Observatory (Netherlands). People and NGO Members →

·       18 advisors and 26 contributors, plus board members and volunteers — current and former leaders from the UN, NSA, UBS, WEF, Ernst & Young, Yale, and Princeton. People and NGO Members →

Legal & Governance

Nonpartisan, apolitical, no lobbying. Board, legal entities, fiscal sponsorship and operations: Governance →

Our Main Activities

·       Extend and update our Strategic Memo of The Deal of the Century (v2.6, 356 pages; v3.0, about 200 pages, due November 20, 2026) 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 the AI-governance attitudes and incentives of a dozen key AI policy powerbrokers. Read the memo → ·

o   26 expert contributors spanning AI safety, cybersecurity, global governance, philosophy, and US-China diplomacy. Meet the contributors →

·       Outreach and Engagements.

o   Our October 2025 US outreach tour in San Francisco and Washington, DC, generated 85+ contacts and direct pathways to 2 of 12 target influencers. Achievements →

o   We host closed-door Consultations in Washington and Miami — provisionally December 9 and 13, January 13 and February 10 — for delegates of key influencers of Trump’s AI policy to co-edit one draft and to ensure the US will co-lead with China a bold and timely global AI treaty.
Roadmap →

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 a dozen key powerbrokers, mapping their AI-governance attitudes, predictions and incentives, and designing an engagement plan 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 outreach 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 closed-door Consultations (Washington and Miami, December through February) bring delegates of the offices that shape US AI policy, verification and arms-control experts and China hands together to co-edit one draft under the Chatham House Rule.

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 26 expert contributors.

·       Breadth of coalition. Our 8 NGO members span the AI governance ecosystem — from the moratorium-focused (PauseAI) to the existential-safety-focused (Center for Existential Safety, Existential Risk Observatory) 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.