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Hunger strike #2, this time in front of DeepMind

by Remmelt
6th Sep 2025
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Below is the text. To follow along, you can check out Michaël Trazzi's profile.

Hi, my name's Michaël Trazzi, and I'm outside the offices of the AI company Google DeepMind right now because we are in an emergency.

I am here in support of Guido Reichstadter, who is also on hunger strike in front of the office of the AI company Anthropic.

DeepMind, Anthropic and other AI companies are racing to create ever more powerful AI systems. 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.

I am calling on DeepMind’s management, directors and employees to do everything in their power to stop the race to ever more powerful general artificial intelligence which threatens human extinction.

More concretely, I ask Demis Hassabis to publicly state that DeepMind will halt the development of frontier AI models if all the other major AI companies agree to do so.

Here is also Michael's comment about the first hunger strike, which is at Anthropic.

This may become a trend. There's some discussion on whether it makes sense to do  here.
If anyone is considering this: do please take vitamins and electrolytes.