Stop The AI Race pauses Occupy OpenAI protest while pushing international AI treaty open letter
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-15
- Stop The AI Race started an Occupy Anthropic protest in San Francisco on July 20, pivoted to Occupy OpenAI after the Hugging Face incident, and has shown up every weekday for 8 weeks; since August 18 it also runs at OpenAI's NYC offices.
- The protests urge Dario Amodei and Sam Altman to push the US government toward an international AI treaty reducing catastrophic AI risk.
- The accompanying open letter at aitreaty.org proposes core components including global compute thresholds for training runs, lowered over time, and verifiable safety obligations for frontier developers; it cites Hinton, Bengio and OpenAI/DeepMind CEOs' warnings plus survey data that roughly half of AI researchers estimate a >10% extinction-level risk.
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