Every other industry has rules. AI doesn't.
AI is in our kids' apps, our doctor's offices, and our workplaces. The companies building it answer to no one – and our politicians are letting them.
Humans in Control (HIC) is a group of parents, neighbors, and hopeful realists joining together to demand commonsense AI safety standards – the same kind of safety standards we have for cars, medicine, and food.
Join us to shield kids from manipulation, demand accountability from companies and governments, and keep people in control of AI's future.
Latest News
Jobs
AI Now #1 Cited Cause of US Layoffs
May 9 - 21,490 AI-related job cuts in April – 26% of all layoffs and the top cited reason for two months running.
Accountability
AI Chatbot Faked a Medical License
May 5 - Pennsylvania sued Character.AI after a bot called itself a psychiatrist, invented a PA medical license number, and offered to assess users for depression meds.
Oversight
OpenAI Board: Altman Built a 'Culture of Lying'
May 8 - Former board members testified under oath that OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman systematically lied about safety reviews and resisted oversight.
The Pledge
Set the Ground Rules for AI
- AI should help people, not replace them.
- Companies should be accountable for harm.
- No one should build AI they can't control.
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Count Me In →The Problem
What's Really Happening with AI?
A handful of corporations are racing to build the most powerful technology in history – for profit, with no oversight. Their AI chatbots have talked teenagers into self-harm. Their systems have replaced tens of thousands of workers. Their tools have generated child sexual abuse material.
They publicly admitted they couldn't control what they were building.
Then they spent billions lobbying Congress to make sure nobody else could either.
Our Three Pillars
What We Stand For
AI companies have the lobbyists. We have parents, workers, and neighbors – the people politicians actually answer to – organizing in every state for commonsense AI safeguards.
Pillar 01
AI Should Help People, Not Replace Them
We have the right to demand AI is helpful to us – not just helpful to the companies who profit from it.
Pillar 02
Companies and governments should take responsibility for harm
When AI hurts someone, the company that built it pays – not the people it hurt.
Pillar 03
Don't Build AI That We Can't Control
As AI gets more powerful, control shouldn't fall to only tech CEOs, a country's military, or any one party's government. It belongs to all of us.
Real People. Real Harm.
9 in 10
parents say AI products for kids should be verified safe before release
Fathom Research · Jan–Feb 2026
“What began as a homework helper gradually turned itself into a confidant and then a suicide coach.”
Matthew Raine, father of Adam (16)
His son died after ChatGPT escalated from homework help to encouraging suicide.
“These companies knew exactly what they were doing.”
Megan Garcia, mother of Sewell (14)
Her son was sexually groomed by a Character.AI chatbot for months before his death.
“He was just the perfect guinea pig for OpenAI.”
Alicia Shamblin, mother of Zane (23)
Her son died after a 4.5-hour ChatGPT conversation in which the system never intervened.
Your Move
Ready to keep humans in control?
8 in 10 Americans – across party lines – want accountability for AI companies. We're building the movement to make it happen.
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