ControlAI 2025 Impact Report: our progress toward an international ban on ASI
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This is an organizational impact report from ControlAI, an advocacy group focused on preventing ASI development through international policy. Relevant to wiki users tracking AI governance movements and institutional actors in the existential risk space.
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ControlAI's 2025 impact report outlines the organization's activities and progress in advocating for an international ban on artificial superintelligence (ASI) development. The report documents coalition-building, policy outreach, and governance initiatives aimed at preventing the creation of ASI through legally binding international agreements. It serves as an organizational accountability document highlighting milestones and strategic direction.
Key Points
- •ControlAI is actively campaigning for an international treaty or ban specifically targeting the development of artificial superintelligence (ASI).
- •The report documents outreach efforts to policymakers, governments, and international bodies to build support for ASI prohibition frameworks.
- •Coalition-building with other organizations and public figures is highlighted as a key strategy for advancing the ban agenda.
- •The report reflects a precautionary, governance-first approach to existential risk from advanced AI, prioritizing prevention over alignment research alone.
- •Progress metrics and strategic goals are outlined, positioning ControlAI as an advocacy organization within the broader AI safety ecosystem.
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# ControlAI 2025 Impact Report: our progress toward an international ban on ASI
By Andrea_Miotti, Alex Amadori
Published: 2026-03-27
This post highlights a few key excerpts from our full impact report. You can read the full report at [https://controlai.com/impact-report-2025](https://controlai.com/impact-report-2025).
ControlAI is a non-profit organization working to avert the extinction risks posed by superintelligence. We help hundreds of thousands of people understand these risks and meet hundreds of lawmakers to inform them, without mincing words, about what is at stake.
In little more than a year, we briefed over 200 parliamentarians, built a [coalition](https://controlai.com/statement) of [**110+ UK lawmakers**](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/08/scores-of-uk-parliamentarians-join-call-to-regulate-most-powerful-ai-systems) **recognizing superintelligence as a national security threat**, led to [two](https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-01-08/debates/5CAD7DC7-3B7E-4925-85C4-88354195031E/AISystemsRisks) [debates](https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002qr59/house-of-lords-superintelligent-ai-debate) in the UK [House](https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/potential-future-risks-from-autonomous-ai-systems/) of [Lords](https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/superintelligent-ai-should-its-development-be-stopped/), and our work led to a [series of hearings](https://www.ourcommons.ca/committees/en/ETHI/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=13255402#witnesses-item) on AI risk and superintelligence at the Canadian Parliament.[^-LC8WpRgknJsdqiNDq-1]These hearings included testimonies from me ([Andrea](https://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20260126/-1/44292?Embedded=true&globalstreamId=20&startposition=4083&viewMode=3)) and [Samuel](https://senparlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20260223/-1/14958?mediaStartTime=20260223170650&viewMode=3&globalStreamId=3) at ControlAI, Connor Leahy, Malo Bourgon (MIRI), Max Tegmark and Anthony Aguirre (FLI), David Krueger, and more.
The report covers results between December 2024 and January 2026. As of posting this in March 2026, **we've now briefed 279 lawmakers and 90+ US congressional offices.** In only the last 2 months, we've scaled in Canada and Germany from ~50 to 100+ lawmakers briefed, despite us only having one staffer in each country.
Moving forward, we plan to significantly expand our work in the US, accelerate our progress from awareness to policy action and establish a presence in all other G7 countries.
ControlAI's mission
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ControlAI’s mission is to avert the extinction risks posed by superintelligence.
Nobel Prize winners, top AI experts and even the CEOs of major AI companies have warned that superintelligence poses an extinction risk for humanity. Yet, most decision-makers and most of the public are still in the dark about these risks.
To avert these risks, we need to prevent the development of superintelligence. We tac
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