Overview
- The march, which drew about 200 people on Saturday, moved from OpenAI’s Mission Bay offices to Anthropic and Google DeepMind to press CEOs for a collective halt to new training runs of larger or more general AI models.
- Organized by Stop the AI Race and led by activist and former researcher Michaël Trazzi, protesters called for an international agreement to freeze further development while shifting work toward narrow applications and alignment research.
- Participants included students, AI workers and longtime San Franciscans who said rapid AI expansion has driven higher rents, job losses and environmental impacts from data centers and corporate growth.
- No major labs have committed to the demanded collective pause, so organizers hope visible demonstrations will build public awareness and push local, state and national officials to adopt stricter rules.
- The protest builds on months of activism over data centers and governance and could increase pressure on municipal actions like data center bans and on U.S. policymakers to pursue coordinated regulations.