Write to your representatives
Why write?
The most powerful AI systems are being developed without independent oversight or an adequate regulatory framework. Companies self-assess. No thresholds define what is too dangerous to deploy. This needs to change, and elected officials are the ones who can act.
Email is more powerful than it seems. MPs and senators are required to respond to their constituents. A personal email, especially a brief and sincere one, carries real weight: it lands in a human inbox, it gets read, and it signals that a voter in their constituency cares about this issue. Unlike a petition or a social media post, it demands a response.
Email is more powerful than it seems. MPs and senators are required to respond to their constituents. A personal email, especially a brief and sincere one, carries real weight: it lands in a human inbox, it gets read, and it signals that a voter in their constituency cares about this issue. Unlike a petition or a social media post, it demands a response.
A handful of emails from real citizens is often enough to get a topic onto a committee's agenda.
How to do it
Find your representatives
Use these links to find your MP (deputy) and senator(s) for your area. Note that each department has at least one senator, sometimes several.
Send your email
- Add a personal sentence: an authentic email carries far more weight than a copy-paste.
- Mention your full name and town (teams sort by constituency).
campagne@pauseia.fr helps us count letters sentRemember to replace [Deputy/Senator name] with their actual name, and fill in your [full name] and [department] at the start and end of the email.
Dear [Deputy/Senator name],
My name is [your name] and I am a resident of [your town/constituency].
I am writing to draw your attention to the rapid development of increasingly autonomous artificial intelligence systems. The leaders of the world's largest AI labs acknowledge that these technologies could pose a serious threat to civilisation if their development is not properly governed. An international report led by Turing Prize winner Yoshua Bengio, backed by 30 countries, confirms that no current safety method is reliable.
There is currently no legal framework requiring independent safety evaluations before these systems are developed or deployed. Companies self-regulate.
I ask you to put this issue on your committee's agenda and to support measures requiring independent safety evaluations for the most powerful AI systems.
The Pause AI association (pauseia.fr) would be happy to provide a briefing to you or your team.
Yours sincerely,
[Your full name]
[Your town / constituency]
