Stop The
AI Race

The architects of these systems know the race is reckless. They've warned us about the existential risks themselves, repeatedly. But each argues they can't slow down because they need to beat the others and geopolitical adversaries.

We're not asking anyone to stop alone. Just to say: if the others pause, I will too.

In September 2025, we protested at Google DeepMind with the same demand. Demis Hassabis said he'd be open to it — but that international coordination was the key bottleneck.

Then in February 2026, Dario Amodei's Anthropic dropped its commitment to pause development if its own AI became too dangerous.

So on March 21st, we marched on Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI to call for a conditional pause, which was featured in the NYT, Washington Post and The Atlantic. Since then, Anthropic wrote it expects it "would slow down or temporarily pause" if other labs verifiably did too, and OpenAI wrote it expects coordination, including slowing frontier development, to become more important.

These are first steps, but 'expects' isn't a commitment. We actually need AI CEOs to say they would pause if everyone else pauses, and the concrete verification regime they'd need. So on July 11, about 400 of us marched again — on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. But protest marches are just the start.

They claim they are building safely for the benefit of humanity. It's time they prove it.