The Harder Problem Action Fund is an advocacy organization fighting harmful AI consciousness legislation. We track pending bills, score legislation, lobby for evidence-based policy, and mobilize public action before ignorance becomes law.
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Fighting Bad Legislation
Jurisdictions Monitored
Bills Tracked
Year Founded
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA • Website: harderproblem.fund • Sister Org: The Harder Problem Project (501c3)
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"Science hasn't answered whether AI can be conscious. But legislatures are already passing laws that assume they know. We fight those laws."
— Tony Rost, Executive Director
"We oppose laws that lock in today's uncertainty as tomorrow's certainty. Future generations deserve to respond to evidence we don't have yet."
— Tony Rost, Executive Director
"We don't claim to know if or when AI will become conscious. We fight laws that assume the answer is obvious when scientists say it isn't."
— Tony Rost, Executive Director
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We're an advocacy organization, not a research lab or educational nonprofit.
We lobby, mobilize, and fight legislation—that's what we do.
Donations to the Action Fund are not tax-deductible.
We're affiliated with The Harder Problem Project, a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit focused on societal readiness.
We track AI consciousness bills across the US, Canada, and UK—70 jurisdictions in total.
Every bill gets analyzed for its impact on research freedom, legal flexibility, and public discourse.
Legislators receive scorecards based on their votes on these issues.
When harmful bills advance, we help constituents contact their representatives with form letters and call scripts.
We don't claim to know whether AI is or can be conscious. That's a scientific question.
We oppose laws based on premature certainty—either that AI definitely can't be conscious or definitely will be.
We're not advocating for AI rights today. We're arguing society should keep options open.
We're not anti-AI regulation. We oppose specific laws that prematurely foreclose future responses.
Some bills declare AI incapable of consciousness by statute or ban funding for consciousness research.
Others would permanently bar courts from ever considering AI interests, regardless of future evidence.
Once bad laws pass, they create constituencies and become hard to reverse.
The time to fight is before these laws become entrenched and spread to other jurisdictions.
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