PauseAI Organization
Welcome to PauseAI!
Organization structure
- Legal entities: PauseAI consists of one international entity, and several local / national legal entities. This website and the social media accounts are managed by the international entity. National entities can have their own website and their own way of doing things.
- People (Volunteers): List of registered volunteers who have opted to show their profile and have committed to work on PauseAI for at least some hours a week.
- Teams: Our volunteers work in all sorts of teams. Every team has its own leader, Discord channel, Drive folder and of course list of members. Reach out to a team leader to join a team!
- National groups: National PauseAI groups are hubs that typically manage their own local communities, and are responsible for national-level strategy and coordination. They typically have their own website, social media accounts and legal entity.
- Local communities: Check if there already exists a community in your area. Most groups are communicating in our discord server, in the
#local-meetups
channel (If you want to create a new local group, post there!). Some groups are using tools like WhatsApp or a separate Discord server.

Onboarding process
- Sign up as a member (on the join page or on Discord)
- Someone from the onboarding team reaches out to you for a one-on-one!
- Sign up as a volunteer. A volunteer is the next step - it involves signing an agreement, sharing your profile on the web page (if you want to) and joining one of the teams.
Educational resources
- The PauseAI Basics: FAQ, our proposal, risks, x-risk, urgency, dangerous-capabilities, mitigating pause failures
- Flyering: How to flyer effectively
- Counterarguments
- Organizing a protest
- Learn about AI safety
- PauseAI in the media
- Email builder
- US Lobby guide
- Writing press releases
Strategy
- Theory of Change
- Communication strategy: how we write our messages
- Roadmap: budget-dependent planning
- Values: core values that should guide our decisions
Other useful links
- Free book on AI X-Risk: Uncontrollable
- Google Calendar link
- Anonymous feedback form: If you want to share some critical thoughts with us while remaining anonymous.
- Microgrants: If you want funding for your PauseAI related project / event
Tools used
- Discord for internal coordination / chats.
- Gmail for
@pauseai.info
email addresses. - Google Suite for documents, spreadsheets, files, folders.
- Trello is used by some teams for issue / ToDo tracking. (org name:
pauseaiinfo
) - Figma for designing flyers and other graphics. (template here
- Airtable for managing teams, volunteers and responsibilities.
Social Media
You can find us on Discord (this is where most of the coordination happens!), Twitter, Substack, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and Reddit. You can mail/contact us at joep@pauseai.info.
Design resources (flyers, posters, logo)
- Figma community template
- If you want to create PauseAI-related material yourself, you can use our brand color #FF9416 and the fonts Saira Condensed (700) and Roboto Slab (300, 700).
- Media Google Drive folder