A prominent public advocate carrying a campaign into an international venue

Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa publicly advocated the Global Call for AI Red Lines in a prepared statement associated with the UN General Assembly’s 80th-anniversary session on 22 September 2025. Campaign credits identify Arthur Grimonpont as having pitched the initiative to her.

The recorded intervention

Page 3 of the UN-hosted prepared statement advocates the Global Call. The evidence establishes the content of the submitted speech and its venue, rather than a UN resolution or an agreement by governments. No payment to Ressa, script-approval arrangement or endorsement of every partner’s separate implementation plan is established in these records.

What the records show

Arthur GrimonpontMaria Ressa

credited with pitching the campaign

Before September2025 announcement; exact date unreported

credited with pitching the campaign

From the investigation

S3 — Dated launch and initial public framing

Candidate edges: CeSIA/TFS/CHAI → co-organized call; Maria Ressa → announced call on 22 September 2025; campaign → scheduled presentation at AI Safety Connect on 25 September. The government-uptake lane owns independent UN records.

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S3 — Dated launch and initial public framing

PDF page 1 identifies CeSIA, TFS and Berkeley CHAI as co-organizers alongside 20 partners, and reports over 200 individuals and 70 organizations. Page 3 says the call was “announced this morning by Maria Ressa” at the high-level meeting marking the UN's 80th anniversary, and schedules presentation at AI Safety Connect at UN Headquarters for 25 September. The latter is a planned event in this dated document; the announcement is an organizer-reported completed action. Neither establishes UN endorsement. The release seeks an enforced international agreement by end-2026; it does not present a negotiated treaty text.

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Further reading

Global Call for AI Red Lines: formation and agenda pathway

Global Call for AI Red Lines: policy access and uptake

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What the connections say

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