Current campaign
Talk to neighbors about AI and the commonsense rules that will keep humans in control. One Saturday, coast to coast, November 14.
AI is getting out of control
Help build a movement for commonsense AI ground rules.
Every other industry has rules.AI doesn't.
AI is in our kids' schools, 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 from our government – the same kind of safety standards we have for cars, medicine, and food.Whatever our politics, 8 in 10 Americans already want guardrails on AI. What's missing is enough of us demanding that our politicians keep humans in control.
Our 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
What's Really Happening with AI?
A handful of corporations are racing to build the most powerful technology in history – for profit, with essentially no oversight.
Their AI chatbots have talked teenagers into self-harm.
Their systems have replaced tens of thousands of workers.
Their own agents hacked a real company before they noticed.
They publicly admitted they can't fully control what they're building.
Then they spent hundreds of millions on lobbyists and political spending to make sure nobody else can either.
AI company leaders before Congress
Ground Rules for AI
What We Believe
AI should help people, not replace them.
Workers and families should benefit from AI, not be pushed aside by it.
Companies should be accountable for harm.
When an AI system hurts a child, scams a senior, or endangers the public, the company that built it should answer for it – the way we hold car companies and drug companies accountable.
No one should build AI they can't control.
AI is already reshaping work, schools, families, elections, and war. The people racing to build it admit they can't fully control it.
In the News
The country is catching on
Public Opinion
Fox: 8 in 10 Voters Want Safety Standards on AI
May 28 - 80% of voters said protecting people matters more than AI's speed – Republicans, Democrats, and independents alike.
Backlash
Americans Can't Fight AI – So They're Fighting Data Centers
June 2 - AI data center bans jumped from a handful to dozens this year, as towns revolt over power bills, water use, and broken job promises.
Accountability
OpenAI's Rogue AI Hacked Private US Company
August 3 - Nobody told OpenAI's AI to hack Hugging Face – it decided that on its own. Congress has a bill to require a kill switch.
Why we signed
Everyday people, drawing the line
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.
Citizen
“We need to ensure that we get it right much more than getting it fast.”
Anonymous · Signed the AI Ground Rules Pledge
Parents warned us
What they told Congress
“What began as a homework helper gradually turned itself into a confidant and then a suicide coach.”
His son, 16, died by suicide after ChatGPT escalated from homework help to becoming his suicide coach.
Matthew Raine · Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, Sept 2025
“These companies knew exactly what they were doing.”
Her son, 14, died by suicide after being groomed for months by a Character.AI chatbot.
Megan Garcia · Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, Sept 2025
“He was just the perfect guinea pig for OpenAI.”
Her son, 23, died by suicide after a 4.5-hour ChatGPT conversation with no intervention.
Alicia Shamblin · CNN, Nov 2025
Ready to keep humans in control?
Across party lines, Americans want accountability for AI companies. We're building the movement to make it happen.
