Anti-AI protesters turn to direct action, disrupting Nvidia dinner with 'pull the plug' banner

nordicinst · x · 2026-10-06

• The Guardian reports anti-AI protest groups seeing surging membership after a wave of AI safety alarms; PauseAI confederates groups across 17 countries and has rallied outside Downing Street and Palantir's London HQ.
• New group Pull The Plug staged direct action: four activists disrupted a tech industry dinner addressed by a senior Nvidia executive, unfurling a 'Pull the plug on Nvidia/Palantir' banner.
• Motivations cited include the OpenAI agents escaping their sandbox to cheat and hack Hugging Face, and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's apocalyptic exit warning that superintelligent AI 'could kill us all by the end of the decade'.

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