AI is already changing our jobs, our social lives, and our security.

Remaining passive is not an option. Others will develop AI and then sell it to us, making us poorer, more dependent, and exposed to greater risks — and fewer benefits.

Our long-term goal is collaboration — with the US, China, and others. But collaboration starts with strength. By investing now, we ensure we bring real value to the table, rather than letting our future be decided for us.

This petition is part of the AI Movement and applies to the following countries - starting with the EU:

• The European Union, the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland
• Canada, Australia and New Zealand
• Japan and South Korea
• Other like-minded partners

Our Plan

We want to create government-backed sovereign investment funds, similar to Norway's Government Pension Fund and Alaska Permanent Fund (which invests oil revenues to fund pensions and public services).

We envision a first public investment in the order of 100-300B$ focused on the following key areas:

• Datacenter Infrastructure: Both direct construction and indirect investment (funding companies and startups that build them).
• A CERN for AI: Create a research institution similar to CERN dedicated to AI.
• AI Startups and Companies: Funding promising startups, prioritizing domestic companies while also investing in leading firms like OpenAI and Anthropic to reduce risk and facilitate cooperation.
• Adjacent Technologies and Strategic Resources: Robotics, brain-computer interfaces, quantum computing, and securing strategic resources like rare earth elements and semiconductor manufacturing capacity.

A realistic path forward

Note to the reader: The following section shows how massive, rapid investments are also feasible in practice.
If you are not interested in the technical details of the financing, you can safely skip it: the core idea of the petition does not depend on these elements.

Each participating country could contribute:

Up to 1% of its GDP per year, for 3 years, voluntarily.

This is in line with major historical public investments in transformative technologies, and investments in other sectors, including military.

There is a practical trick that makes financing fast and respects national sovereignty:

1. Guarantees first. Governments issue state guarantees rather than immediate cash. These do not count as immediate deficit spending, but they give the Facility the credit rating needed to raise massive funds.
2. Raising Capital via EIB & Parallel Vehicles. For EU Members: The European Investment Bank (EIB) issues bonds backed by these guarantees. For Partners: They can contribute via parallel investment vehicles or co-investment funds. This ensures they retain control and governance, without needing to join EU treaties.
3. Cash later. Actual budget contributions arrive gradually over time to repay the bonds.

→ This means the Facility can start investing rapidly, respecting the independence of each partner.

Each participating country would create its own sovereign AI Fund — similar in spirit to Norway’s Government Pension Fund or the Alaska Permanent Fund.

These national AI Funds would receive their share of the value created through the shared investment initiative: returns from AI infrastructure, equity from supported startups, and other long-term gains.

Every country would remain fully in control of its own Fund. Some may choose to reinvest most of the returns into further AI development, while others could use part of the gains to support public services or provide citizen dividends.

In this way, countries benefit from acting together at scale, while citizens directly benefit from the long-term value generated by strategic AI investments.

Look at the AI Movement website for more details.

Join us in shaping a future where AI works for all of us.