Like it or not, the future of humanity literally rests on what one person, Donald Trump - and a dozen people who have his ear or power to influence him - will do about AI policy in the coming weeks and months.

While it is now becoming evident to many, we have been the only NGO focused on just that since February 2025, with our Deal of the Century initiative. A small gift, at the right moment, can help.

It is clear by now that AI will prove the best or the worst thing ever to happen to us — with little chance of a middle outcome. That fork is now being decided by two men, Trump and Xi. Persuading Trump is the hardest, most decisive problem on Earth.

It is in plain sight. Yet almost no one is working on it — because it is too disturbing to even contemplate.

We are likely unique. Since early 2025, we have worked on one thing: helping the advisors and power brokers Trump listens to make the case for a bold, enforceable AI treaty co-led with China.

The superpowers are moving, but not yet leading. President Xi, hosted at the White House in September, said AI must stay "always under human control."

President Trump sends mixed signals. His new Super Intelligence Force, chaired by DNI Jay Clayton, has 120 days to report. Yet he signed a voluntary accord with six AI CEOs — self-regulation that binds no one. And his new US-China Super Intelligence Dialogue will, by November, merely "exchange views on risks and benefits" of AI.

Bigger incidents, rising public alarm and smart proposals can push him to a real, enforceable deal within months. You don't need to be an AI expert to help.

You're not imagining it.

What you sense happening with AI isn't science fiction—it's real.

Even the leaders of the firms building these systems openly admit there's a substantial chance soon — it will not only replace most jobs and concentrate all power — but it could very well completely disempower or even wipe out humanity.

While nearly all top US AI CEOs admit the extinction risk, Musk, Amodei and Nobel laureate Hinton place it at 20%, with Hinton clarifying his estimate is really 50%, but he tones it down to align with others’. Many other top experts assign much higher percentages.  The largest-ever survey of independent AI researchers, in 2023, found a mean extinction risk estimate of about 14%. If conducted today, it’d surely be much higher. Most place such a risk just a few years away, or sooner if we don’t decide to steer its course — and are increasingly signing open calls for a bold AI treaty.

Yet, paradoxically, AI can still turn out to become by far humanity’s greatest invention — with increases in wellbeing, peace, abundance, and freedoms of most people that are today unimaginable. But these will happen only if we manage to come together like never before to steer it, or we get lucky in a coin-flip gamble where all-powerful ASIs will somehow care for our survival and wellbeing.

You're not alone.

While heads of state are still mostly silent, ever louder warnings by scientists, more recently opinion makers, are being heard loud and clear by citizens.

Back in 2023, 55% of citizens surveyed in 12 countries were “fairly or very worried” about "loss of control over AI".

By 2025, 78% of US Republican voters believed artificial intelligence could "eventually pose a threat to the existence of humanity".

By March 2025, Americans “very or somewhat concerned” about AI “causing the end of the human race” were 37% and increased to 43% by July 2025.

In October 2025, 63% of US citizens believed it is “somewhat or very likely” that "humans won't be able to control it anymore" and 53% that "AI will destroy humanity". And people’s concerns are increasing by the month and by the week.

And yet, nothing remotely proportionate is being done.

Most world leaders are either sticking their heads in the sand or actively accelerating the race. The US and China are locked in a winner-take-all race to the brink, with discussions between the two superpowers barely begun at the political level.

The uncomfortable truth.

It is incredibly difficult to accept that the future of our species may hinge on someone whose politics many of us oppose doing the right thing for strategic rather than grand moral reasons. But this is just how sometimes history plays out.

Why? That's due to the short timelines to AGI and ASI, to the time needed to agree to a treaty of such scope, and to Xi's consistent calls for global AI governance. Yet, no other AI advocacy organization has fully recognized this working fact and acted accordingly. We have.

But there is a glimmer of hope. 77% of Americans support a strong international AI treaty.

We’ve been there before. In early 1946, scientists' warnings and public concerns about the control of a new destructive technology led a pragmatic, realist US President, Harry Truman, to propose what is by far history’s most ambitious treaty.

Presented to the UN on June 14, 1946, coincidentally Trump’s date of birth, it prescribed the exclusive international control of nuclear weapons and global sharing of nuclear energy. It nearly succeeded. Trump can complete what Truman started.

We're seizing that chance. Our Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI is running what may be the highest-leverage initiative imaginable:

Catalyze a humanist alliance of key influencers of Trump's AI policy to convince him, on pragmatic grounds, to pursue a bold, timely and proper US-China-led AI treaty — The Deal of the Century.

We've achieved remarkable results on minimal funding. With about $140,000, we’ve built a 356-page Strategic Memo (v2.6; v3.0, about 200 pages, due November 20) profiling every key Trump AI powerbroker, generated 85+ high-level contacts during a US tour in DC and the Bay Area, and created direct pathways to multiple target influencers. We now have an opportunity to scale 10x with moderate funding — or, at minimum, to keep working through the critical window that runs from the G20 at Doral to the Force’s report.

Your donation directly powers this mission. We operate at ~$7,500/month—a fraction of typical DC policy organizations. Every dollar goes to research, engagement and travel. No fancy offices. No bloated staff. With a small donation, you could be part of a potentially incredibly impactful endeavor.

A Final Human-to-Human Appeal

The challenge is enormous, as are the forces at play.  It may be tempting to succumb to powerlessness, by sticking our heads in the sand or watching doom unfold from the sidelines.

Success is highly uncertain. But given the nature of the challenge, its largely neglected key chokepoint, our minuscule organization has a decent chance at having an incredibly outsized impact — just like the small David managed to kill the giant Goliath with a precisely-targeted and lucky slingshot.

So both ordinary citizens and wealthier philanthropists, like you, can play a unique, vital and historical role, even with a small contribution.

And then, how can we find true peace or look our children in the eyes if we do not at least try to do something to save their future? We have the unique privilege of having agency in the most consequential years of human history.

After all, is there anything more exhilarating and fulfilling than striving with good spirits and firm resolve to steer the course of history toward a positive future?

Let’s strive together with joy in doing the best we can to solve Humanity's greatest challenge, to ensure AI will turn out to be humanity's greatest invention rather than its worst, and last.

To learn more, see our Deal of the Century, our team, our 2025 achievements, our 2026 roadmap, our post Why Trump Can Be Persuaded.

Join us in the greatest and most promising fight for our children—and for humanity!