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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), 
 which is 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 Anduril 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 (1), and Prof. 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 (2). Some experts, like Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, say the risk of 
 extinction is 99.99%(3). Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, when asked about 
 the worst case for AGI, said it could be, "lights out for all of us"(4). 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. We have caused the extinction of many less 
 intelligent species, and would equally assume their fate.\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\n(1) 
 https://blog.aiimpacts.org/p/2023-ai-survey-of-2778-six-things Part 3\n(2) 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTF5Up1hMhw&t=2283s\n(3) 
 https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-researcher-roman-yampolskiy-lex-fridman-human-extinction-prediction-2024-6\n(4) 
 https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-openai-ceo-worst-case-ai-lights-out-for-all-2023-1\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/26/18879280.php
SUMMARY:Stop AI Protest
LOCATION:1455 3rd St, SF
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/26/18879280.php
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