Monday, September 14, 2026
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
PauseAI US Demonstration Supporting an International AI Treaty
About this event
A public demonstration outside the State Department urging the US to open negotiations on an international treaty to pause frontier AI development, timed to coincide with diplomatic engagement in late September.
PauseAI US holds a public demonstration outside the Harry S Truman Building, the State Department headquarters in Foggy Bottom.
The demand is specific: that the State Department open negotiations toward an international treaty pausing frontier AI development. The action is timed to coincide with a period of high-profile diplomatic engagement in late September, and forms part of the organisation's broader PauseCon programming.
This is advocacy rather than a talk or a meetup, and it is listed on that basis. Anyone attending should understand it as a political demonstration with a stated position, not a neutral forum on AI risk. It is included here because AI governance advocacy is a real and material part of Washington's AI landscape, and practitioners tracking the policy environment may want it on their radar.
Free and open to the public. The Truman Building is on C Street NW, nearest Metro Foggy Bottom.
Organized by
The United States branch of PauseAI, an advocacy organisation campaigning for international coordination and treaty negotiation on frontier artificial intelligence development.