Published on September 5, 2025 4:00 AM GMT
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Hi, my name's Guido Reichstadter, and I'm on hunger strike outside the offices of the AI company Anthropic right now because we are in an emergency.
Anthropic and other AI companies are racing to create ever more powerful AI systems. These AI's are being used to inflict serious harm on our society today and threaten to inflict increasingly greater damage tomorrow. Experts are warning us that this race to ever more powerful artificial general intelligence puts our lives and well being at risk, as well as the lives and well being of our loved ones. They are warning us that the creation of extremely powerful AI threatens to destroy life on Earth. Let us take these warnings seriously. The AI companies' race is rapidly driving us to a point of no return. This race must stop now, and it is the responsibility of all of us to make sure that it does.
I am calling on Anthropic's management, directors and employees to immediately stop their reckless actions which are harming our society and to work to remediate the harm that has already been caused. I am calling on them to do everything in their power to stop the race to ever more powerful general artificial intelligence which threatens to cause catastrophic harm, and to fulfill their responsibility to ensure that our society is made aware of the urgent and extreme danger that the AI race puts us in.
Likewise I'm calling on everyone who understands the risk and harm that the AI companies' actions subject us to speak the truth with courage. We are in an emergency. Let us act as if this emergency is real.
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