AI‑safety activists are escalating tactics to hunger strikes outside major labs (e.g., two weeks at Anthropic’s San Francisco office; a shorter attempt at Google DeepMind in London) to demand a halt to frontier AI. This mirrors earlier nuclear and environmental movements and signals rising moral urgency within the AI‑risk ecosystem.
— Escalating protest tactics indicate AI governance is moving from expert debate to mass‑movement pressure, potentially influencing regulation and corporate decisions.
Tom Chivers
2025.09.16
100% relevant
The article reports a current two‑week hunger strike outside Anthropic and a parallel attempt at DeepMind, explicitly tied to 'AI could destroy life on Earth' claims.
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