Inside the AI Resistance

On the first day of September, Guido Reichstadter made his way into San Francisco’s SoMa neighbourhood, and positioned himself near an entrance at Anthropic’s headquarters. Beneath his silver-framed glasses, the 45-year-old activist wore an expression of calm concern. Alone in the shadow of the 10-storey office building, he seemed almost frail. He brought a folding chair along with him. Beside it, he set up an A-frame chalkboard that read in big block letters: “Hunger Strike Day 1, Anthropic: Stop the Race to General Intelligence!”