NYC AI Safety Protest for Paris AI Summit (MONDAY)

​AI presents numerous risks to humanity. Meanwhile, progress in AI capabilities is accelerating at a frantic pace and humanity is not prepared for the consequences.

​This protest will occur in parallel with the Paris AI Action Summit, and 17 other PauseAI protests in cities around the world. Our goal is to convince the few influential individuals at this summit to be the adults in the room and vote to enforce AI safety at an international level. It’s up to us to make them understand that they may be the only ones who have the power to prevent AI from having catastrophic, global harms within the next few years.

​Present Dangers

• ​Fake news, polarization and a loss of trust in any image / video information (1)

• ​Deepfakes and impersonation of individuals, especially those in power (1)

• ​Scalable, untraceable bias and discrimination against many minority groups (1)

• ​Technology 'addiction' and disconnection between people (1)

• ​Lethal autonomous weapons (1, 2)

• ​Empowerment of terrorist groups and foreign threat actors (1)

• ​Environmental damage from rapid AI scaling (1, 2)

​Near-Future Dangers

• ​Massive job loss and human unemployability (1, 2)

• ​Biological weapons and novel pandemics (1, 2)

• ​Mind-reading, extraction of secrets, and reduction of privacy (1, 2)

• ​Breaking cybersecurity that runs the internet (1, 2, 3)

• ​Total human annihilation (CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman, Lead Investor at Anthropic, Bill Gates, Godfather of AI Geoffery Hinton, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and many others)

​Additional information on AI risk available at https://airisk.mit.edu/