Achievements

(Last updated on August 4th, 2026)

At the beginning, during Q3-Q4 2024, our Coalition sought to pursue a multilateral approach to an AI treaty via a coalition of non-superpower willing nations. Then, in Q1 2025, we realized that, like it or not, our AI future is in the hands of Trump and Xi.

Hence, we refocused on researching the feasibility of a bold US-China-led AI treaty and deeply researching the key potential influencers of Trump's AI policy, producing a 133-page Strategic Memo of The Deal of the Century (v2.0) in September 2025.

Engagement with Influencers so Far

Since Q4 2025, we have reached out and engaged with influencers (and their advisors, staff, and introducers to them) directly or through our network, via email and through a three-week October 2025 Persuasion Tour in DC and the Bay Area. We have continued engaging remotely since then. So far, we have:

  • Engaged 95+ person “close” to such influencers, including:

    • 23+ AI lab officials directly

    • 28+ DC-based AI governance experts. 

    • Held 3 private group dinners in SF and DC;

  • Most notably, for four of those powerbrokers, — Dario Amodei, Pope Leo XIV, Marco Rubio, and Kratsios — our engagement has been direct and sustained: over 30 hours with senior AI policy officials or advisors who report directly to them.

Q1-Q2 2026 Momentum

In Q1 2026 — anticipating a potential key role for a Pope-Vance alignment following Vance’s deferral to the Pope on AI ethics and safety in May 2025 — we engaged extensively with Vatican AI leaders.

We generated considerable interest in a June 2026 Roundtable in Rome with exceptional participants. However we decide to postpone because — due to Thiel’s March 2026 lectures in Rome depicting anyone fostering a treaty to prevent ASI as an Antichrist, and to a hard clash between Trump, Vance and the Pope in April 2026 on the war in Iran — the “Caesar-Papist fusion” feared by Thiel in September 2025 has been successfully pre-empted). 

Hence, we decided to refocus away from the Pope and Vance as targets, and merge such a Rome event with one planned The Deal of the Century Roundtables in Washington DC, at a TBD date in early Q4 2026, with several US- and DC-based local co-hosting NGOs. 

In Q2 2026, we focused on:

For our plans for the next 12 months, see our Roadmap →