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DESCRIPTION:Help us say, "Close OpenAI!" OpenAI is the company leading the race to 
 smarter-than-human AI, also known as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), 
 i.e., an AI that is smarter than all human experts across all technical 
 domains. Although libertarians have long espoused that technology always 
 generally benefits workers, AGI would leave humans out of the loop in every 
 major industry, and, ultimately, have no need for humans to repair or 
 improve itself. AGI would mean mass unemployment, and a massive transfer of 
 wealth to the 1%.\n \nAI developers like OpenAI have stolen copyrighted 
 works from creatives without their consent, and actively refuse to share 
 royalties with any of them. It is ludicrous to think they'll start sharing 
 wealth with anyone who they've caused to be unemployable. If the rich no 
 longer need human workers or human soldiers, and everyone but them is 
 homeless, what will stop the rich from throwing out the trash? It is the 
 job of the people to reserve their right to strike, and protest the 
 corporations that are trying to lead us to this catastrophe.\n 
 \nFurthermore, OpenAI continues to work with military defense contractor 
 Andurill to develop increasingly advanced AI weapons for the United States 
 and Israel. There is no world where putting extremely smart AIs in military 
 weapons is a good 
 idea.\nhttps://www.wired.com/story/openai-anduril-defense/\n \n2,700 cited 
 AI researchers said in a poll that there is a 19% chance of AGI causing 
 human extinction, and Geoffrey Hinton, who won the Nobel Prize for his work 
 in AI in 2024, says there is a 50% chance of AGI causing human extinction. 
 Some experts, like Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, say the risk of extinction is 
 99.99%. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, when asked about the worst case for 
 AGI, said it could be, "lights out for all of us," and later said AGI will 
 arrive in 2025. It is impossible to have experimental evidence that the 
 behavior of an AGI will stay safe indefinitely and that AGI will never want 
 something that will lead to our extinction similar to how we often caused 
 the extinction of many less intelligent species.\n \nWe demand that 
 workers, within their respective industry, are given the right to vote on 
 what level of AI they are ok with, to stop themselves from becoming 
 increasingly unemployable. We demand an end to the integration of AI into 
 militaries worldwide. We demand that the US government shut down OpenAI, 
 close any other company building AGI, and permanently ban the development 
 of AGI.\n \nWe have a 56 minute presentation on YouTube, featuring 
 Professor David Krueger from the University of Montreal, where you can 
 learn more.\nhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=3fMVKH-B_EA\n\nHere is footage of 
 our previous protest at OpenAI on July 25th. We will continue to hold 
 similar protests at OpenAI every 4th Friday of the 
 month.\nhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=gkpSVk51S1I\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/10/18878808.php
SUMMARY:Stop AI Protest at OpenAI
LOCATION:1455 3rd St, San Francisco, the OpenAI offices
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/10/18878808.php
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