In His Words
Letters from the work
Bob writes constantly, often with AI at his side, and says so openly. These are sentences he wrote or sent under his own name, dated as he wrote them.
On urgency
October 2025This spring as a retired dentist and entrepreneur… I too was watching TV in the evenings. What I heard was truly alarming.
October 2025As I listened carefully, like my son, I could not just sit by and let this happen to humanity.
October 2025It is hard to turn down a job which includes saving the human race.
October 2026Eighteen months ago, I was happily retired when I realized that humanity is in serious danger from AI. I ended my retirement that day.
August 2025Failure is not an option.
October 2025Once you fully understand how much humanity is at risk for great harm, you can not stand by and let the people on the street at the restaurants suffer or worse. How many times are you offered a chance to save humanity?
September 2026My goals have not changed. The urgency has.
August 2025Think of building dinosaurs and releasing them all over the planet with no fences.
November 2025I liken it to a rambunctious teenager who makes a lot of mistakes although clearly brilliant.
October 2026Three years ago these warnings came from the edges. Today they come from the heads of the leading AI companies.
On children
October 2026We are doing this for our grandchildren and for yours.
September 2026A 99 percent safety rating is a complete failure when the remaining one percent can mean serious harm to a child, or worse.
September 2026…that subject is the very reason I came out of retirement.
November 2025We do not want to see our beautiful children or grandchildren be harmed in any way.
July 2026No part of humanity will oppose keeping children safe. And all agree that children are the most vulnerable. So we lead with them to move the entire train.
October 2026This is the part of the work closest to my heart.
July 2026I strongly believe that for users under age 13 the only safe option is a bounded system.
On responsibility
July 2026You can not say I did so much good it is ok if I kill a few children.
July 2026The LLM and its owners must face clear consequences for any actions that are not in concert with human well-being. If we can build systems to reinforce that we have a real chance.
October 2026Science can write the standard, faith can give it moral weight, and insurance and liability can make it stick.
September 2026I do not say regulation fails; I say something I learned across fifty years in insurance: regulation works late, and insurance works first.
July 2026The root problem is that we have never clearly established that the owners of these systems are responsible for the harm they cause — a principle as old as the Bible: man must be accountable for his actions.
On faith and convening
August 2026I am here on earth only to do good for others. There is nothing more important.
October 2026We are all doing God's work.
July 2026…a message from this group will be heard around the planet.
October 2026…I must remain independent, so that no one could believe my initiative favors one religion over another. But independence does not mean distance.
On himself
October 2026I agree completely about the teeth, and as a dentist I know a lot about teeth.
October 2025I have a new full time job 12 hours a day 7 days a week, and I have to pay to work there.
March 2026It is the hardest job in the world.
January 2026My history is more standard. Good student, silver spoon, but always hard work and I love challenges. Change is what you expect and prepare for, Clear vision of the future has always come naturally and Confidence I can do anything and I do. I am 81 years old, a dentist, and 5'4"
February 2026My specialty in life is getting past barriers. Blow up the wall, fly over it, or go around it; just get past it quickly.
February 2026We are all from the for Profit world. We are highly action oriented. We call ourselves the doers.
November 2025I am a great believer in family first no matter how pressing the business or opportunity.
August 2025Yarin you are 100% correct… I frequently get ahead of myself.
September 2026Ladies and Gentlemen, tear it apart, and share your comments before it spreads wider.
September 2026…I would rather be corrected early than politely encouraged.
October 2026I am guilty of doing just what annoys me.
October 2026We had two days of panel discussions about AI, and I constantly suggested less talk and more action.
August 2026I am in love with the work we are attempting to do.
September 2026He says it is hard. I like hard. That means in my language, it's doable with enough resources and persistence.
September 2026I use AI actively every day, never passively, and at 82 my mind has expanded, not shrunk.
September 2026When the machine does the thinking, the mind weakens. When the machine makes the person think, the mind grows.
August 2026…I seek neither recognition nor reward.
September 2026I am a very proud Dad. This major achievement recognizes my son David's work and his appointment to a prominent role at Harvard Medical School. I could not be happier.
June 2019This institution has the ability to inspire its graduates.
Keep AI Safe
October 2026We host and serve. We do not lead.
October 2026No AI company money funds this effort.
October 2026Evidence first. Every claim in the brief needs a source we can show.
Boundlia
July 2026Once a child speaks or writes through AI they are not protected.
April 2026We need the certification and the consumer digest to be completely arms length from the Talking Toy Company.
The Dignity Accords
July 2026…I call it the Dignity Accords.
July 2026It must be a meeting of equals, focused solely on the safety of the human race.
August 2026The table I am describing—the great traditions each in their own voice alongside the leading scientists—is the one I am working to assemble, not one that has yet agreed. Some of these are relationships I have begun and some are doors I have not yet knocked on.
July 2026I want some honest feedback and constructive ways that this can be improved. If you believe this will ultimately cause harm, I would also want that warning.
October 2026My job is merely convener and let the experts figure out how to make it safe.
September 2026The declaration is the occasion; the body is the outcome.
October 2026We affirm that every human being is responsible for his or her actions, and that this responsibility does not end when we build a machine to act for us.
Medical Discoveries
July 2026The hospital already owns the raw material. What it lacks is the layer that makes the raw material usable…
October 2026We are using AI to improve the quality of human existence and convening religious leaders to extend the moral imperative of keeping AI safe.
July 2026…for now we are in startup mode and need to establish a proof of concept