Anti-superintelligence march has just 1,685 pledges toward a 100,000-person trigger, backed by Bengio and Sanders
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-24
The March to Stop Superintelligence in Washington, DC — tied to If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies — has only 1,685 people pledged to attend, with attendance conditioned on hitting 100,000 sign-ups (organizers are even offering to crowdfund plane tickets). Safety researcher David Krueger boosted it: "Can we please get this to 100,000 before we all die?"
Endorsers include Yoshua Bengio (no superintelligence without scientific consensus and social acceptance), Senator Bernie Sanders, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, ex-OpenAI governance researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, and UK MP Alex Sobel — all calling for a global treaty banning superintelligence development.
The signatory list also features controversial figures like Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck, and the gap between rhetoric and actual pledges is itself a telling snapshot of the AI-safety movement.
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