"The group calling itself Stop the AI Race has planned several rallies on Saturday outside the offices of three San Francisco AI companies: Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI. Their one demand is 'every CEO must publicly commit to pausing frontier AI development if every other lab does the same.'"
"Demis Hassabis (CEO of Google DeepMind) already said he'd be open to a conditional pause at Davos in January 2026. That was the main ask of our Google DeepMind protest in September 2025."
"In February, Anthropic quietly dropped its own commitment to pause if its AI became too dangerous. And OpenAI has been weakening its safety commitments as it restructures into a for-profit corporation."
"This isn't likely to be the last general protest we're going to see against the AI industry, particularly as more human jobs get lost to bots."
A protest is scheduled for Saturday by a group named Stop the AI Race, urging AI CEOs to pause technology development. They demand a public commitment from CEOs to halt frontier AI development if all labs agree. Previous statements from industry leaders like Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei indicated openness to a conditional pause. However, concerns arise as companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have weakened their safety commitments. The protest reflects growing unease over AI's impact on jobs and safety, echoing earlier anti-tech movements.
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