Milestones
Milestones To Date
The Strategic Pivot
After a year in Geneva attempting to build a coalition of nations to promote a global AI treaty, we reached a critical conclusion in February 2025: a bold, timely, and well-designed treaty capable of addressing AI's significant risks can only succeed if led by the United States alongside China.
This insight reshaped everything. We launched The Deal of the Century.
Phase 1: Deep Analysis (Feb–Sep 2025)
We selected and deeply analyzed the most likely key influencers of Trump's AI policy who could champion a US-China-led global AI treaty. The research was exhaustive:
Reviewed 517+ articles and videos documenting their public statements on AI
Analyzed 150+ academic papers on AI governance and treaty precedents
Conducted three week-long, in-person analysis sprints with 20+ contributors
Developed detailed philosophical, psychological, and interest profiles for each influencer
This work produced the 130-page Strategic Memo v2.0 — published September 24th — featuring tailored open letters and ad-hoc strategic briefs designed to privately persuade each influencer to join a critical mass for a unified pitch to Trump.
Phase 2: First US Persuasion Tour (Oct 2025)
Armed with our analysis, we traveled to Washington, DC and the Bay Area for three weeks of in-person outreach — engaging directly with influencers and those who can introduce us to them.
Bay Area (Oct 3–21) ✓ Completed
Primary targets: Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and senior policy/strategy executives at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind.
What we accomplished:
Engaged and built rapport with mid-level technical, strategy, and policy officials at OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind through warm introductions, LinkedIn exchanges, cold emails, and group meetings
Held one-to-one and group meetings at our Coalition's temporary office (Hilton Hotel, Berkeley Marina)
Activated local members, supporters, donors, and advisors to facilitate introductions to AI lab leadership
Acquired new partners, volunteers, testimonials, and advisors
Field Engagements at AI Lab Headquarters: Two days of on-the-ground engagement (morning and lunchtime) at OpenAI and Anthropic HQs to connect with policy and strategy staff and share our open letters for internal forwarding. (DeepMind proved inaccessible.)
Advocacy Gatherings: Oct 14 & 16 at Sens (San Francisco) — evening aperitifs bringing together introducers, advisors, supporters, prospective donors, and volunteers.
Washington, DC (Oct 21–24) ✓ Completed
Primary targets: JD Vance, Marco Rubio, David Sacks, Steve Bannon, Tulsi Gabbard — via our tailored open letters and strategic briefs.
What we accomplished:
Strategic gatherings with members of the national security establishment
Meetings with State Department and intelligence community contacts
Coordination with DC teams of major AI safety advocacy organizations
Hosted two evening gatherings for Coalition members and guests (Oct 22–23)
Phase 3: Strategic Memo v2.5 & Fundraising (Nov–Dec 2025) 🔄 In Progress
Currently completing:
Strategic Memo v2.5 — expanded from 130 to 320+ pages with greatly enhanced influencer profiles, updated analysis from our October tour, and refined convergence scenarios
Fundraising campaign — seeking $50,000–$150,000 to extend runway through critical political windows in 2026
Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV — due December 18th
Updated Open Letters for all influencers — due January 15th as part of Strategic Memo v3.0
Our Strategic Network
Most of our 100+ members, advisors, and supporters are concentrated precisely where AI policy decisions are made:
Bay Area: AI safety and policy researchers at major labs, tech executives and investors from previous startup ventures, speakers from security seminars at leading California universities.
Washington, DC / National Security: Former officials from a major US signals intelligence agency, connections to former directors of key cybersecurity directorates, ties to leading defense think tanks that have studied AI governance, a former highest-ranking US cyber diplomat, networks from CIA-linked cybersecurity incubators.
Rome: Vatican representatives, connections to Pope Leo XIV's inner circle, engagement with global south nations and Chinese religious leaders.
What Comes Next: Q1 2026
January:
Publish Strategic Memo v3.0 with updated Open Letters for all key influencers
Launch systematic outreach campaign
Q1 2026:
Second Persuasion Tour extending to Rome and Mar-a-Lago
Escalated engagement with humanist camp (Vance, Bannon, Pope Leo XIV, Gabbard)
Begin building critical mass for a unified pitch to Trump ahead of his anticipated meeting with Xi (April 2026)
The Window Is Narrow
Trump has accepted Xi's invitation to Beijing in April 2026, with a reciprocal state visit planned later that year — potentially four in-person meetings within fourteen months. If even three or four key influencers align on the necessity of a treaty and approach Trump together before April 2026, the most important deal of the 21st century becomes possible.
The 1946 Baruch Plan emerged from exactly this kind of targeted influencer persuasion. Oppenheimer, Acheson, and a handful of others shifted Truman's calculus through persistent, calibrated advocacy.
The question isn't whether it's possible. The question is whether we'll act in time.