AI has sparked hunger strikes outside the offices of Anthropic and Google DeepMind
AI has sparked hunger strikes outside the offices of Anthropic and Google DeepMind
Hi, my name is Denys Sheremet, and I've joined Michaël Trazzi on a hunger strike outside the offices of the AI company Google DeepMind in London. At the same time Guido Reichstadter is on hunger strike outside the AI company Anthropic in San Francisco.
Why am I here? We are in an emergency. Google DeepMind, Anthropic and other AI companies are racing to create uncontrollable AI systems that can do anything humans can do. Experts have repeatedly warned us that this puts our lives and well-being at risk, as well as the lives and well-being of our loved ones.
Alarm bells have now been rung by Nobel Prize winners, top scientists and engineers. Thousands of them, including Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, have signed a letter stating "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority".
This is an emergency, and all of us who realize it bear serious responsibility to ensure the public is made aware of the danger. How can we expect our communities to act appropriately if we will not even say it is an emergency, or act like it ourselves?
I am calling on DeepMind’s management, directors and employees to do everything in their power to stop the race to ever more powerful general artificial intelligence which threatens human extinction. More concretely, I ask Demis Hassabis to publicly state that DeepMind will halt the development of frontier AI models if all the other major AI companies agree to do so.
I will stay here for one to three weeks unless Google acts.
Hi, my name's Michaël Trazzi, and I'm outside the offices of the AI company Google DeepMind right now because we are in an emergency.
I am here in support of Guido Reichstadter, who is also on hunger strike in front of the office of the AI company Anthropic.
DeepMind, Anthropic and other AI companies are racing to create ever more powerful AI systems. Experts are warning us that this race to ever more powerful artificial general intelligence puts our lives and well being at risk, as well as the lives and well being of our loved ones.
I am calling on DeepMind’s management, directors and employees to do everything in their power to stop the race to ever more powerful general artificial intelligence which threatens human extinction.
More concretely, I ask Demis Hassabis to publicly state that DeepMind will halt the development of frontier AI models if all the other major AI companies agree to do so.
Hi, my name's Guido Reichstadter, and I'm on hunger strike outside the offices of the AI company Anthropic right now because we are in an emergency. Anthropic and other AI companies are racing to create ever more powerful AI systems. These AI's are being used to inflict serious harm on our society today and threaten to inflict increasingly greater damage tomorrow. Experts are warning us that this race to ever more powerful artificial general intelligence puts our lives and well being at risk, as well as the lives and well being of our loved ones. They are warning us that the creation of extremely powerful AI threatens to destroy life on Earth. Let us take these warnings seriously. The AI companies' race is rapidly driving us to a point of no return. This race must stop now, and it is the responsibility of all of us to make sure that it does.
I am calling on Anthropic's management, directors and employees to immediately stop their reckless actions which are harming our society and to work to remediate the harm that has already been caused. I am calling on them to do everything in their power to stop the race to ever more powerful general artificial intelligence which threatens to cause catastrophic harm, and to fulfill their responsibility to ensure that our society is made aware of the urgent and extreme danger that the AI race puts us in.
Likewise I'm calling on everyone who understands the risk and harm that the AI companies' actions subject us to speak the truth with courage. We are in an emergency. Let us act as if this emergency is real.