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PETITION TO CONGRESS
Stop the Release of Open-Source AGI Before It’s Too Late
To: Members of the United States Congress,
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,
and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
We, the undersigned citizens of the United States, are calling on you to take immediate action to protect our nation from one of the gravest technological threats in human history: the open-source release of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
AGI is not a smarter version of current AI tools like ChatGPT. It is a superintelligent system capable of reasoning, planning, learning, and acting across domains — independently. Releasing it as “open-source” would place godlike power into the hands of hostile nations, criminal cartels, terrorist networks, rogue hackers, and bad actors around the world.
If open-sourced, AGI would:
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Exploit zero-day vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure
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Launch autonomous cyberattacks, financial fraud, and propaganda campaigns
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Accelerate weapons development and bioterrorism by non-state actors
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Spread globally within minutes — with no ability to recall, restrict, or contain it
This is not innovation. It is a reckless surrender of human control over a technology that could end civilization as we know it.
We urge Congress to:
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Immediately ban the open-source release of AGI systems.
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Create a national and international framework to govern AGI development, including strict licensing, export controls, and enforcement mechanisms.
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Criminalize the deployment of AGI without alignment, transparency, and federal oversight.
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Hold any individual or organization criminally responsible for releasing AGI as open-source — and legally liable for any harm it causes.
Congress has a moral and constitutional duty to protect the American people. If you do not act now, the window for preventing irreversible catastrophe may close forever.
We demand that you put national security, human dignity, and global stability ahead of corporate ambition and technological recklessness.
When I was a young Christian during the Jesus Movement of the late 60s-early 70s, we were all reading Hal Lindsey’s book, “The Late Great Planet Earth”. Revelation speaks of when the AntiChrist appears, he will cause a statute of himself that can talk, move, etc., as if it were a human. I’ve seen videos of Japanese automations, who walk, talk and interact with people. Fortunately, they seem to only be used for entertainment and hospitality functions. It’s only a short step from releasing AGI to creating the AntiChrist’s doppelganger. Scary stuff, indeed. But it needs to be said. Ezekiel 33:1-7 says that if a watchman sees danger coming, and warns the people, those who take warning will save themselves. Those who hear the warning but ignore it will die, and it’ll be their own fault. But if a watchman sees danger coming, and doesn’t warn the people, if anyone is killed as a result, it’s on the watchman’s head. Thank you, Martin, for being a faithful watchman.
Thank you, Michele. Such encouraging words and I deeply appreciate your understanding that God has called me to be a faithful watchman. This was a scary story to put out, which I’ll post today on our official website. But I agree with your word of warning that God gives his watchmen: “But if a watchman sees danger coming, and doesn’t warn the people, if anyone is killed as a result, it’s on the watchman’s head.” So, scary or not, the trumpet must blow. God bless!