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Field Report
Our Impact

Government offices, classrooms, and community
halls.

Torchbearer Community (TBC) is still young, but our members are meeting with decision-makers in legislative offices, classrooms, and community halls. The early results are encouraging.

By the Numbers

Hundreds

Lawmakers contacted

Across multiple countries

Dozens

In-person meetings

With elected officials and staff

10+

Community events

Presentations & workshops

4,000+

MicroCommit users

20,000+ actions taken

120,000

Messages sent

To lawmakers with ControlAI

Four Fronts of Work

Four areas of coordinated work.

We work across four areas to reduce existential risk from AI. Each area operates differently, but they reinforce each other.

01 DIP 02 Movement 03 Infrastructure 04 Communication
Government building
01

educating

Direct Institutional Plan

Politicians, journalists, and civil servants shape AI policy. Our Direct Institutional Plan (DIP) is a repeatable method for citizens to brief them directly: book the meeting, make the case, follow up. It is designed for any democratic system of government.

What we've done

  • Hundreds of lawmakers contacted across multiple countries
  • Dozens of in-person meetings with elected officials and staff
  • 10+ community presentations and events

What we're building

Local group meeting
02

helping

Build a Movement

Lasting change requires organized communities. We establish and support local groups so advocacy can happen everywhere.

What we've built

What we're building

  • Supporting coordination for other organizations via organization-level MicroCommit
  • Massachusetts network with seven lawmaker offices
Civic technology
03

creating

Infrastructure and Technology

We build tools that make it easier for people to take action on AI safety. MicroCommit delivers small, doable advocacy tasks (share a clip, write to a representative) straight to your feed.

What we've built

What we're building

  • AI safety voter guides showing where candidates stand on AI regulation
  • Tools for tracking and coordinating outreach to representatives

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