ThePro-HumanAssembly2026
Charting a better path for AI
Sept. 15, 2026Washington, D.C.
About the event
Location: Washington, D.C.
Date: Sept. 15, 2026Registration & Breakfast: 8:00am–9:00amEvent: 9:00am–5:45pmReception & Film Premiere: 6:00–8:00pm
Building on The Prohuman AI Declaration from our inaugural New Orleans gathering, this exclusive, one-day convening in Washington DC brings together select leaders to identify risks, spotlight opportunities, and map practical steps forward.
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This event aimed to define a shared vision and articulate a better, more human-centric path for AI development. Just a taste of our stellar speaker lineup:
- U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders — Independent Senator from Vermont and leading voice of the progressive movement
- U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal — U.S. Senator, Connecticut
- Steve Bannon — Former White House Chief Strategist under President Trump and leading voice of the MAGA movement
- Ashley Judd — Author, Activist, Actor
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, filmmaker, and founder of the collaborative creative platform HitRecord
- Assemblyman Alex Bores — Former data scientist turned New York State Assemblymember, TIME 100 AI honoree, and co-author of the landmark RAISE Act
- U.S. Representative Greg Casar — Democrat from Texas and Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
- U.S. Representative Chip Roy — Republican from Texas's 21st District
- Liz Shuler — President of the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest federation of labor unions
- Randi Weingarten — President of the American Federation of Teachers
- Walter Kim — President of the National Association of Evangelicals and Harvard-trained theologian
- Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone — Archbishop of San Francisco
- Megan Garcia — Advocate for AI and social media child-safety protections
- Frank McCourt — Executive Chairman and former CEO of McCourt Global, Founder of Project Liberty, a global movement to build people-centered digital infrastructure
…and many more.
The day featured a packed agenda of talks and panels covering everything pro-human: keeping humans in charge, avoiding concentration of power, protecting the human experience, enhancing human agency and liberty, responsibility and accountability for AI systems, and the components needed to pivot to a pro-human future. We also had opportunities for audience co-creation, special announcements, and live performances.
Interested in attending?
Attendance is highly selective and limited. Please submit your application below to be considered for an invitation.
Every day, advanced AI systems are made more powerful. Every day they are further integrated into our jobs, communities and families, often without our consent. AI companies are locked in a race to replace us as workers, companions, and parents, and as the architects of our own future. Many have already paid a terrible price. This race erodes our agency, our liberty and our self determination.
But this is not inevitable.
There is a pro-human path.
AI has the potential to solve some of our most intractable problems. It can cure diseases, improve education, and create prosperity. It can empower us and protect our privacy. It can help children, rather than hurting them. We can build safe and trustworthy tools that will make us strong, not obsolete. AI should serve us, not the reverse.
Together we can walk this path.
Our fate should not be decided by a handful of BigTech billionaires. This is not just an assembly, it's a rallying point to keep the future human.
Together, we can send a message to our leaders.
By acting now, our leaders can choose this better path for all of us. By bringing together faith groups, parents, workers, politicians, national security experts, business leaders, activists, artists, and more, The Pro-Human Assembly 2026 helped make crucial voices heard in AI's corridors of power.
