• Initiation: Charbel-Raphael Segerie researched potential calls to action, drafted the first versions of the call in February, and coordinated the project's key stakeholders until the partnership with TFS in July.
• Survey: Thanks to Tereza Zoumpalova and Caroline Jeanmaire for creating the survey that compares different policy measures, and that shows that red lines are the most supported measure among the many tested.
• Statement text: Thanks to Florent Berthet and Manuel Bimich for the hours of discussion on the statement’s text.
• Statement beta testing: Thanks to the many people who were consulted and gave great feedback for early versions of the statement, including Davidad, Andrea Miotti, Adam Shimi, Jonathan Claybrough, Epiphanie Gedeon, Siméon Campos and Adam Khoja. Thanks to all the partners, especially Marc Rotenberg, FLI, ControlAI, and SaferAI for feedback on the statement. The list is very long here, but we should also mention Fabien Roger, Charles Martinet, Markov Grey, Su Cizem, Chris Painter and Ryan Greenblatt. Thanks to the ML4Good participants who gave feedback on the text.
• Early supporters: Thanks to Stuart Russell and Mark Nitzberg for endorsing this project early on.
• FAQ: Thanks to Arthur Grimonpont, who drafted the first version of the FAQ. Thanks to Niki Iliadis, Su Cizem, and Tereza Zoumpalova for their significant revision.
• Ambition: Thanks to Manuel Bimich for the motivation to push as ambitiously as possible.
• Website: Thanks to Felix Dorn for the final website. Thanks to Markov Grey and Hadrien for the first version of the website.
• Support: Thanks to Epiphanie Gédéon and Lucie Philippon for the general support.
• Signatory collection: Thanks to Florent Berthet and Manuel Bimich for identifying key signatories, Delfina Belli for collecting key Italian signatories, Tereza Zoumpalova for the general signatory management from TFS, Niki Iliadis and Anoush Tatevossian for outreach on the policy side and CSO side, Felix Dorn for his help with outreach to AI companies and for his general support.
• Management: Thanks to Niki and Tereza for managing the project from within TFS.
• UN Announcement: Thanks to Maria Ressa for the announcement at the UN, and Arthur Grimonpont for pitching Maria. Thanks to Yoshua Bengio for presenting the statement to the UN Security Council.
• Social media: Thanks to Lucie Philippon for helping Charbel with the LW post and the Twitter post.
• Spar fellows: Thanks to Aman Agarwal and Sarra Hannachi for helping with the signatory outreach and management during the final phase.
• Advisors: Thanks to the many people who advised on the strategy, Paul Rohdes (Coach), Fynn Heide (Safe AI Forum), and Adam Khoja (statement lead from the CAIS), Anoush Rima Tatevossian (UN engagement), and Tolga Bilge (ControlAI) for general advice. Thanks to Jared Perlo for suggesting to Charbel the idea of collaborating with TFS on the project.
• Press conference: Thanks to Arthur Grimonpont for coordinating the press conference, and to Apollo Strategic Communications and Mai Lynn Miller Nguyen (head of communication at TFS) for preparing and moderating the press conference.
• Amplification: Thanks to all those who took the time to diffuse the red lines website. Thanks to all the signatories who helped us get more signatories, in particular Sören Mindermann, Fabien Roger (Anthropic), Edward Yee (FarAI), Tom Shaul (GDM), and Ian Goodfellow (GDM). Thanks to Mai Lynn Miller Nguyen and Liza Adhiambo for preparing our social media strategy, posts, visuals and the comms kit. Thanks to Gary Marcus and Yoshua Bengio for sharing the statement widely on social media.
• Event in the UN: Thanks to all of those who contributed to the statement diffusion with the great AI Safety Connect event on the 25th of September, especially Cyrus Hodes, Nicolas Mialhe, Kay Kozaronek, and Leah Fayal.
• Translations: Thanks to Joël Christoph for the translations in German and Japanese. Thanks to Delfina Belli for Italian, Caio Machado for Portuguese, George Gor for Swahili and Diego Gomez for Spanish.
• Video: Thanks to all of those who contributed to the video, especially Tereza Zoumpalova for the script, and Rebecca Dearden for execution and editing.