"They were mainly there, I believe, to recruit people who might be willing to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience, which they see as the key to stopping super AI"-a method Sorgen thought was really smart, she told me. Afterward, she started going to Stop AI's weekly meetings in Berkeley and learning about the artificial-intelligence industry, adopting the activist group's cause as one of her own."
"They followed a typical activist playbook. They passed out flyers and served pizza and beer at a T-shirt-making party. They organized monthly demonstrations and debated various ideas for publicity stunts. Stop AI, which calls for a permanent global ban on the development of artificial superintelligence, has always been a little more radical-more open to offending, its members clearly willing to get arrested-than some of the other groups protesting the development of artificia"
Sam Kirchner vanished, prompting a San Francisco Police Department warning that he could be armed and dangerous and an OpenAI office lockdown. Before those events, Kirchner was seen as an ordinary, ardent activist who attended protests such as one at Travis Air Force Base against immigration policy and U.S. military aid to Israel. Kirchner, 27, joined Stop AI and helped recruit people for nonviolent civil disobedience to oppose superintelligence. Stop AI held weekly meetings, researched AI and protest strategy, distributed flyers, organized demonstrations and publicity stunts, and favored a permanent global ban while accepting the risk of arrests.
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