‘Stop AI Race’: Workers, students protest at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google’s US offices as layoffs surge

People working in artificial intelligence and students were among a San Francisco crowd of about 400 protestors marching outside the offices of prominent tech companies OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, which are leading the AI boom while thousands of employees continue to lose their jobs in the technology sector.

The high-emotion march targeting AI companies on July 11 was organised by ‘Stop the AI Race.’ As established on its website, the group has a single demand: “Every major AI lab CEO must publicly commit to pausing frontier model development if every other major lab in the world credibly does the same.”