Protesters Rally Outside OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI Offices Over Industry Concerns
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In brief 200 protesters marched from Anthropic to OpenAI and xAI offices in San Francisco. Activists called on AI companies to pause development of new frontier AI models. Organizer Michael Trazzi previously staged a multi-week hunger strike outside Google DeepMind. Protesters took to the streets of San Francisco on Saturday, stopping outside the offices of Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI to call for a conditional pause in the development of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence. According to Stop the AI Race founder and documentarian Michael Trazzi, roughly 200 protesters participated in the demonstration. Participants included researchers, academics, and members of advocacy groups such as the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, PauseAI, QuitGPT, StopAI, and Evitable. “There are a lot of people who care about this risk from advanced AI systems,” Trazzi told Decrypt. “Having everyone marching together shows people are not isolated in thinking about this by themselves. There are a lot of people who care about this.” The march began at noon outside Anthropic’s offices, then moved to OpenAI and then to xAI. At each stop, activists and speakers from the participating organizations addressed protesters. According to Trazzi, the protest aimed to push AI companies to agree to a coordinated pause in building more powerful AI models and create treaties with AI developers in other countries to do the same. “If China and the U.S. agreed to stop building more dangerous models, they could focus on making the systems better for us, like medical AI,” he said. “Everyone would be better off.” Stop the AI Race’s proposal calls for companies to stop building new frontier models and shift work toward safety, if other major labs “credibly do the same,” which Trazzi said makes protesting in front of AI labs’ offices more important. Steady opposition The protest is the latest in a…
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