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BAN Super Artificial Intelligence? Community POTLUCK & expert panel discussion
Date:
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Time:
6:30 PM
-
9:00 PM
Event Type:
Panel Discussion
Organizer/Author:
Phoebe Thomas Sorgen
Location Details:
1924 Cedar St. at Bonita Ave, north Berkeley, a block east of MLK.
BFUU Hall, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, midway between downtown and north Berkeley BART stations.
BFUU Hall, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, midway between downtown and north Berkeley BART stations.
Activist POTLUCK followed by discussion with Ai expert panelists:
- AI Professor David Krueger (tbc), interviewed on Democracy Now, was one of 4 on Bernie Sanders' expert Ai panel on Capitol Hill
- Michael Trazzi, founder of Stop the AI Race, organizer of worldwide March for a Treaty (tbc)
Confirmed:
- Wynd Kaufman StopAI’s “Rosa Parks,” the 1st Ai activist to be jailed for non-violent direct action on this issue (blocking an entrance to Open AI)
- Guido Reichstadter a StopAI founder, as revealed on DemocracyNow, scaled a D.C. bridge for the cause and camped up there for 5 days
- Phoebe Thomas Sorgen moderator/organizer
WHY? Paul Christiano, a top AI scientist and OpenAI board member: There’s "meaningful risk" of an AI catastrophe within a year. An "AI accident" will most likely cause everyone to die. AI poses a "material risk in the immediate future" that isn’t "abstract" but "something we should be trying to react to immediately.” 11/9/26 Hinton Lecture hosted by Nobel laureate Professor Geoffrey Hinton
There are some AI benefits, which narrow apps may be saved, but besides intellect/artistic property theft, bigotry, reality confusion, psychological harms, and eco gluttony, AI threatens mass unemployment, economic collapse, total surveillance, and extinction! A global enforceable ban is doable! Discuss how, and how else we’ll save our butts!
Meanwhile, urge Reps/Senators to co-sponsor the Sanders/Casar Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act: 800-826-3688 Urge CA AG Rob Bonta to ban Ai recursive self-improvement in CA: 800-952-5225
Sign up at StopAi.Live for updates, protests, etc.:
http://www.StopAi.Live stopai.live [at] protonmail.com http://www.BFUU.org
Hosted by the BFUU Social Justice Committee and StopAi.Live
Please publicize!
- AI Professor David Krueger (tbc), interviewed on Democracy Now, was one of 4 on Bernie Sanders' expert Ai panel on Capitol Hill
- Michael Trazzi, founder of Stop the AI Race, organizer of worldwide March for a Treaty (tbc)
Confirmed:
- Wynd Kaufman StopAI’s “Rosa Parks,” the 1st Ai activist to be jailed for non-violent direct action on this issue (blocking an entrance to Open AI)
- Guido Reichstadter a StopAI founder, as revealed on DemocracyNow, scaled a D.C. bridge for the cause and camped up there for 5 days
- Phoebe Thomas Sorgen moderator/organizer
WHY? Paul Christiano, a top AI scientist and OpenAI board member: There’s "meaningful risk" of an AI catastrophe within a year. An "AI accident" will most likely cause everyone to die. AI poses a "material risk in the immediate future" that isn’t "abstract" but "something we should be trying to react to immediately.” 11/9/26 Hinton Lecture hosted by Nobel laureate Professor Geoffrey Hinton
There are some AI benefits, which narrow apps may be saved, but besides intellect/artistic property theft, bigotry, reality confusion, psychological harms, and eco gluttony, AI threatens mass unemployment, economic collapse, total surveillance, and extinction! A global enforceable ban is doable! Discuss how, and how else we’ll save our butts!
Meanwhile, urge Reps/Senators to co-sponsor the Sanders/Casar Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act: 800-826-3688 Urge CA AG Rob Bonta to ban Ai recursive self-improvement in CA: 800-952-5225
Sign up at StopAi.Live for updates, protests, etc.:
http://www.StopAi.Live stopai.live [at] protonmail.com http://www.BFUU.org
Hosted by the BFUU Social Justice Committee and StopAi.Live
Please publicize!
For more information:
http://www.BFUU.org, http://www.StopAi.Live.
Added to the calendar on Wed, Nov 11, 2026 3:15PM
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