Find out why growing numbers want action, and how ASVA drives safety.
You've probably noticed AI getting sharper, but the pace is easy to underestimate. Systems now write code, pass professional exams and outperform most people at tasks we assumed needed human judgement.
Whoever develops the first truly human level AI will control the economy, so the leading labs are locked into a flat-out race. Worse, many labs have the explicit goal of building an AI beyond human intelligence.
No one, not even the people building these systems, knows how to control an AI at human level, let alone one smarter than us. We're barely in control of the AI we already have.
Geoffrey Hinton, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on AI, left Google specifically to warn about it. In 2023 the heads of the leading labs signed a one-line statement putting AI extinction risk alongside pandemics and nuclear war.
There is no law against a company building a dangerous AI system. There is not even a legal requirement for these systems to be tested before release. Despite this, right now AI safety barely registers on the political radar.
None of this is hopeless. There are real proposals that can work; testing regimes, oversight rules, international agreements. History shows that we can hold back dangerous technology when society makes this a priority. ASVA exists to make AI safety a priority for our society – and for the people who govern it.
The AI Safety Voter Alliance is built on a simple idea: turn concern about AI into something politicians actually feel. We make AI safety a voting issue, the kind an MP can't afford to ignore.
We've researched all 650 MPs and graded them A to F on their AI safety record: how they've voted and what they've said publicly, backed by evidence rather than opinion. You can look up your own MP in seconds and see exactly where they stand.
Then we ask you to pledge that this grade will factor into how you vote, the way you might weigh the NHS or the environment. It takes about two minutes, and you don't need to be an expert, you're simply saying you're paying attention.
Single-issue voters punch far above their weight. An MP doesn't need tens of thousands of emails, just the knowledge that a defined group of their constituents is watching this issue and will remember at the ballot box. Right now that pressure is close to zero, so even a few hundred pledges per seat is a loud signal.
See where your MP stands, then add your name. It's the most concrete lever most of us have on how this technology gets handled, and it works best the earlier you use it.