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Your data is yours.
No company trains AI on your posts, photos or messages unless you actively say yes.
Read this ask.Fair Future Safeguards · A campaign by Field Level Tech
A fair future with AI.
Five safeguards that would ensure we all get to benefit from a future with AI while protecting what really matters. If you want that better future, sign for it.
The five asks
The five safeguards.
Each one has its own page with the detail, who already does it, and what would change for you.
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Your face and voice are yours.
A legal right to stop anyone making an AI copy of you without your permission.
Read this ask.Ask 3
A human is always available.
You're told when you're dealing with AI, and a person can always step in.
Read this ask.Ask 4
Clean power, paid for by them.
Data centres that take public support run on clean energy and never add to your bills.
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Free AI for everyone.
A public AI helper with no adverts, and the skills to use it taught in every school and library.
Read this ask.All five
Ready to back them?
It takes about thirty seconds, and you decide whether we're allowed to email you.
Sign the petition.Where we are
Let's start with what's gone wrong.
Companies have trained AI on people's photos and posts without asking. Anyone's voice can be cloned in an afternoon. Data centres are going up next to gas plants while household bills rise. And decisions about benefits and jobs are being handed to machines nobody can question.
None of that is the technology's fault. It's what happens when a powerful tool arrives before the rules do.
We think AI could be the best thing to happen to ordinary people in a generation, if it plays by fair rules. It can do the paperwork that eats your evenings. It can explain a letter from the council in plain English. It can give one person the reach of a small team. That is worth fighting for.
So this petition asks the UK government for five safeguards. It doesn't ask anyone to pause or stop. Signing it means yes to AI, on fair terms.
What's possible
The same tools as the big players.
For most of history the expensive stuff was for people who could pay for it. A developer to build your idea. A lawyer to read the contract. A researcher, a designer, a translator. AI puts a version of each of those in the hands of anyone with a phone, and people are already using them to do things that were out of reach a few years ago.
Build it yourself.
Making an app used to mean hiring a developer. Now people describe what they want in plain English and the code gets written. Collins Dictionary made "vibe coding" its word of the year for 2025 because so many people who never learned to code are doing exactly that.
See what's in front of you.
Be My Eyes lets a blind person point their phone at a letter, a menu or a tin and hear what it says. More than 900,000 people use it, backed by nine million volunteers for the moments the AI can't manage.
Look inside any protein.
AlphaFold worked out the shapes of over 200 million proteins and put them online for free. More than two million researchers in 190 countries have used it, many in labs that could never have paid for the equipment.
Then there's your time.
When the UK government gave 20,000 civil servants an AI assistant for three months, they saved an average of 26 minutes a day, close to two weeks a year each. That is the kind of saving that makes a four-day week possible without a pay cut.
The good it can do
Charities are showing the way.
Charities run on too little money and too much paperwork. AI is already changing that. In the 2026 Charity Digital Skills Report, 79% of UK charities said they use AI in some way, mostly for notes, documents, research and funding bids.
Citizens Advice in Greater Manchester built Caddy, an assistant that finds the right guidance for an adviser while a supervisor checks every answer before it's used. In the pilot across six local offices, the time to answer a client's question halved, from ten minutes to four. The client always speaks to a person. The person just has better back-up.
The catch is skills. In the same report, 56% of charities said limited skills were their biggest barrier and 45% said they lacked training, with small charities furthest behind. That is why our fifth ask includes free training in every library and for anyone whose job is changing. Give a food bank or a hospice the training a bank gives its staff, and watch what they do with it.
Where these figures come from
- Collins Dictionary, Word of the Year 2025
- Be My Eyes, about the service
- Google DeepMind, AlphaFold and the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database
- GOV.UK, Microsoft 365 Copilot experiment findings, June 2025
- Charity Digital Skills Report 2026, AI findings
- Stanford Justice Innovation on Citizens Advice's Caddy
What signing means
“I want a future with AI. I'll back it when five things are true: my data is mine, my face and voice are mine, a human is always available, the power is clean and paid for by them, and it's free for everyone.”
That's the whole pledge. A yes, with conditions.
Add your name.Why now
The rules are being written now.
Your posts are already training data.
Meta trains its AI on UK adults' public posts and photos unless you find the form and object. Most people never hear there is a form.
Data centres are getting the discount.
The government is offering data centres in its new AI Growth Zones cheaper power and faster grid connections, with discounts planned from April 2027. Nothing yet says the power must be clean or that your bill won't rise.
There is still no AI law.
The UK has no AI Act. Other countries are deciding what AI can and can't do to their citizens. Here, for now, the companies decide.
Supported by
People who get it.
Artists, campaigners and privacy experts who want a future with AI, on fair terms.
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“I'm still angry about how my work was taken. I'm also still a working illustrator, and I use AI every week. Both things are true. This is the first campaign that gets that.”
Sam Example
Illustrator
“Nobody wants a gas plant next door so a chatbot can answer faster. Ask four is the data-centre policy we've been asking for.”
Priya Placeholder
Climate campaigner
“Opt in, not opt out. Four words that would fix most of what's wrong with how AI treats our data.”
Jordan Sample
Privacy advocate
Music body
Environment group
Digital rights org
Libraries body
Digital inclusion charity
Performers' union
Who's behind this
Made by people who use AI every day.
Fair Future Safeguards is run by Field Level Tech, a UK not-for-profit tech company. We build tools that put technology in ordinary people's hands, and we already lend a serious AI workstation, free, to people who couldn't otherwise get one.
We're not against AI. We think it should belong to everyone, and these five asks are how you get there.
We stand with the Make It Fair campaign on copyright and creators' rights. That's a fight they lead, and we back them. Ours is the rest of the list.
We don't take a party side. This asks the UK government, whoever is in it.
Questions
Fair questions.
Isn't this an anti-AI petition?
No. It's the opposite. We think AI can do a great deal of good for ordinary people, and we want it to. This petition sets out the conditions that make that possible. Signing says yes to AI, on these terms.
Why not just pause it?
Because a pause only works if everyone pauses, and they won't. The companies that already have the data and the power would carry on. Safeguards change what AI is allowed to do to you, whoever builds it. That's a fight we can win.
Who is behind this, and who pays for it?
Field Level Tech Ltd, a UK not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. In plain terms: no shareholders, and any surplus goes back into the work. We'll list every organisation backing the campaign on this page as they join.
What does “free AI for everyone” actually mean?
A publicly owned AI helper you can use at home for nothing, with no adverts and no selling of your data, paid for the way libraries are. Switzerland's universities have already built one. Alongside it, the skills to use AI well taught in every school by 2028, and offered free to anyone whose job is changing.
Why isn't copyright on the list?
Because the Make It Fair campaign is already fighting for creators, and doing it well. We back them. Adding our own version would split the effort. Our five asks cover the things nobody else is campaigning for.
What happens to the signatures?
We deliver them to the government, and to every MP whose constituents have signed, with the five asks attached. If you've said we can email you, we'll tell you what comes back.
What happens to my details?
Your name and email go to Action Network, the campaign platform we use, so your signature counts. We only email you about the campaign if you tick the box, and you can leave with one click. The full detail is in our privacy policy.