About
About Humans in Control
Humans in Control is a nonpartisan grassroots movement of parents, workers, veterans, and neighbors fighting to keep people — not a handful of AI companies — in charge of our future.
Read Our Story↓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.
Our Story
How We Started
In 2023, the people building the most powerful AI systems signed a statement saying their technology could cause human extinction. They told Congress the work was too dangerous to leave to them alone.
“Regulation of AI is essential.”
Sam Altman, to the US Senate, May 2023
Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI · Senate testimony, 2023 · C-SPAN
By 2025, the same companies were spending hundreds of millions to block the rules they had asked for. Their tools were generating fake nude images of high school girls. Their products were eliminating jobs their own CEOs said wouldn't come back. Their safety researchers were quitting and warning the public that the companies were moving too fast to catch problems.
“I am nervous about standards being set too early.”
Sam Altman, to the US Senate, May 2025
Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI · Senate Commerce Committee, May 2025 · C-SPAN
Vael Gates
Executive Director & Founder
Our founder spent a decade inside the AI field trying to make it go well. Vael heard researchers describe AI systems already manipulating kids, replacing workers, and generating abuse material. Meanwhile, the companies raced to build powerful AI systems their own CEOs had called a threat to humanity. These weren't failures — they were side effects of rushing to be first.
Vael Gates
Executive Director & Founder
Who was organizing everyday Americans to push back? Almost nobody. So Vael left to start Humans in Control.
The AI companies won't hold themselves accountable. But we still get a say in how this goes. AI can still be built to help people instead of replace them — if enough of us demand it.
That's why Humans in Control exists: to make sure our politicians know that Americans want humans in control.
Public Support
This is common sense.
88%
want a guaranteed off switch for the most powerful AI.
D
88%
R
90%
I
87%
AIPI · Feb 2026
81%
reject letting AI companies write their own rules.
D
82%
R
81%
I
79%
AIPI · Feb 2026
73%
support a federal law requiring AI safety testing.
D
74%
R
73%
I
73%
AIPI · Feb 2026
Source: AI Policy Institute Senate wave, n=3,969
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8 in 10 Americans want accountability for AI companies.
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