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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.

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

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Added to the calendar on Wed, Nov 11, 2026 3:15PM
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