PauseAI x Pull the Plug: March Against the Machines
March Against the Machines
PauseAI is teaming up with Pull the Plug, Assemble and other groups for the first-ever coalition march of AI activist groups.
The march will be a milestone for AI activism. It will be the first time that a range of groups with different concerns and perspectives on AI unite to make all our voices louder. So we also expect it to be the largest ever protest focused exclusively on the risks of AI.
There will be testimonies by some of the people already affected by AI and talks by scientists who deeply understand the technology and its risks. At the end, we will hold an assembly where we will reflect on how AI makes us feel and how we can make it better. The march will be nonviolent, legal, and liaised with the police to make it as inclusive and family-friendly as possible.
PauseAI's Demand
Today, we live in a world where top AI scientists are warning us that the technology they helped to create poses a serious risk of causing the extinction of humanity. While at the same time tech companies are pouring trillions of dollars into a desperate and uncontrolled race to reach superhuman intelligence as fast as possible.
This is breathtakingly reckless.
And everyone knows it. Very few people are in favor of the current AI arms race. But everyone needs to coordinate to slow down together, instead of letting one company or one country race ahead of everyone else.
The first step towards a global treaty is for the CEOs of the top three AI companies to publicly state that they support a pause in principle. That is, they would support a pause if every other player also paused at the same time and independent auditors monitored each company and country to ensure that the international treaty was honoured.
And the first step of that is already done! Just two years after PauseAI first called for a pause in principle, Google DeepMind CEO, Demis Hassabis told reporter Emily Chang that he would support one.
So one down, two to go! And both the CEO of Anthropic and Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, have already acknowledged the extreme risks that AI poses, so they should only need a bit more pressure. PauseAI is much bigger now than ever before, so it shouldn't take too long to get the next win!
At this protest, we will be starting outside OpenAI and marching around around King's Cross, where the big tech companies are based, to make our demand loud and clear: