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The Strange Disappearance of an #AntiAI #Activist
#SamKirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.
By Kaitlyn Tiffany, December 4, 2025
Excerpt: "The reaction from the broader #AISafety movement was fast and consistent. Many disavowed violence. One group, #PauseAI, a much larger AI-safety activist group than #StopAI, specifically disavowed Kirchner. PauseAI is notably staid—it includes property damage in its definition of violence, for instance, and doesn’t allow volunteers to do anything illegal or disruptive, such as chain themselves to doors, barricade gates, and otherwise trespass or interfere with the operations of AI companies. 'The kind of protests we do are people standing at the same place and maybe speaking a message,' the group’s CEO, Maxime Fournes, told me, 'but not preventing people from going to work or blocking the streets.'
"This is one of the reasons that Stop AI was founded in the first place. Kirchner and others, who’d met in the PauseAI #Discord server, thought that that genteel approach was insufficient. Instead, Stop AI situated itself in a tradition of more confrontational protest, consulting #GeneSharp’s 1973 classic, The #MethodsOfNonviolentAction, which includes such tactics as #SitIns, '#NonviolentObstruction,' and 'seeking imprisonment.'
"In its early stages, the movement against unaccountable AI development has had to face the same questions as any other burgeoning social movement: How do you win broad support? How can you be palatable and appealing while also being sufficiently pointed, extreme enough to get attention but not so much that you sabotage yourself? If the stakes are as high as you say they are, how do you act like it?
"#MichaëlTrazzi, an activist who went on a hunger strike outside #Google #DeepMind’s London headquarters in September, also believes that AI could lead to human extinction. He told me that he believes that people can do things that are extreme enough to 'show we are in an emergency' while still being nonviolent and nondisruptive. (PauseAI also discourages its members from doing hunger strikes.)"
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/l6ACC#AISucks #NoNukesforAI #AIResistance #Terminator #Alphabet #WarBots #SkyNet #Activists
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The Strange Disappearance of an #AntiAI #Activist
#SamKirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.
By Kaitlyn Tiffany, December 4, 2025
Excerpt: "The reaction from the broader #AISafety movement was fast and consistent. Many disavowed violence. One group, #PauseAI, a much larger AI-safety activist group than #StopAI, specifically disavowed Kirchner. PauseAI is notably staid—it includes property damage in its definition of violence, for instance, and doesn’t allow volunteers to do anything illegal or disruptive, such as chain themselves to doors, barricade gates, and otherwise trespass or interfere with the operations of AI companies. 'The kind of protests we do are people standing at the same place and maybe speaking a message,' the group’s CEO, Maxime Fournes, told me, 'but not preventing people from going to work or blocking the streets.'
"This is one of the reasons that Stop AI was founded in the first place. Kirchner and others, who’d met in the PauseAI #Discord server, thought that that genteel approach was insufficient. Instead, Stop AI situated itself in a tradition of more confrontational protest, consulting #GeneSharp’s 1973 classic, The #MethodsOfNonviolentAction, which includes such tactics as #SitIns, '#NonviolentObstruction,' and 'seeking imprisonment.'
"In its early stages, the movement against unaccountable AI development has had to face the same questions as any other burgeoning social movement: How do you win broad support? How can you be palatable and appealing while also being sufficiently pointed, extreme enough to get attention but not so much that you sabotage yourself? If the stakes are as high as you say they are, how do you act like it?
"#MichaëlTrazzi, an activist who went on a hunger strike outside #Google #DeepMind’s London headquarters in September, also believes that AI could lead to human extinction. He told me that he believes that people can do things that are extreme enough to 'show we are in an emergency' while still being nonviolent and nondisruptive. (PauseAI also discourages its members from doing hunger strikes.)"
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/l6ACC#AISucks #NoNukesforAI #AIResistance #Terminator #Alphabet #WarBots #SkyNet #Activists
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The Strange Disappearance of an #AntiAI #Activist
#SamKirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.
By Kaitlyn Tiffany, December 4, 2025
Excerpt: "The reaction from the broader #AISafety movement was fast and consistent. Many disavowed violence. One group, #PauseAI, a much larger AI-safety activist group than #StopAI, specifically disavowed Kirchner. PauseAI is notably staid—it includes property damage in its definition of violence, for instance, and doesn’t allow volunteers to do anything illegal or disruptive, such as chain themselves to doors, barricade gates, and otherwise trespass or interfere with the operations of AI companies. 'The kind of protests we do are people standing at the same place and maybe speaking a message,' the group’s CEO, Maxime Fournes, told me, 'but not preventing people from going to work or blocking the streets.'
"This is one of the reasons that Stop AI was founded in the first place. Kirchner and others, who’d met in the PauseAI #Discord server, thought that that genteel approach was insufficient. Instead, Stop AI situated itself in a tradition of more confrontational protest, consulting #GeneSharp’s 1973 classic, The #MethodsOfNonviolentAction, which includes such tactics as #SitIns, '#NonviolentObstruction,' and 'seeking imprisonment.'
"In its early stages, the movement against unaccountable AI development has had to face the same questions as any other burgeoning social movement: How do you win broad support? How can you be palatable and appealing while also being sufficiently pointed, extreme enough to get attention but not so much that you sabotage yourself? If the stakes are as high as you say they are, how do you act like it?
"#MichaëlTrazzi, an activist who went on a hunger strike outside #Google #DeepMind’s London headquarters in September, also believes that AI could lead to human extinction. He told me that he believes that people can do things that are extreme enough to 'show we are in an emergency' while still being nonviolent and nondisruptive. (PauseAI also discourages its members from doing hunger strikes.)"
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/l6ACC#AISucks #NoNukesforAI #AIResistance #Terminator #Alphabet #WarBots #SkyNet #Activists
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The Strange Disappearance of an #AntiAI #Activist
#SamKirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.
By Kaitlyn Tiffany, December 4, 2025
Excerpt: "The reaction from the broader #AISafety movement was fast and consistent. Many disavowed violence. One group, #PauseAI, a much larger AI-safety activist group than #StopAI, specifically disavowed Kirchner. PauseAI is notably staid—it includes property damage in its definition of violence, for instance, and doesn’t allow volunteers to do anything illegal or disruptive, such as chain themselves to doors, barricade gates, and otherwise trespass or interfere with the operations of AI companies. 'The kind of protests we do are people standing at the same place and maybe speaking a message,' the group’s CEO, Maxime Fournes, told me, 'but not preventing people from going to work or blocking the streets.'
"This is one of the reasons that Stop AI was founded in the first place. Kirchner and others, who’d met in the PauseAI #Discord server, thought that that genteel approach was insufficient. Instead, Stop AI situated itself in a tradition of more confrontational protest, consulting #GeneSharp’s 1973 classic, The #MethodsOfNonviolentAction, which includes such tactics as #SitIns, '#NonviolentObstruction,' and 'seeking imprisonment.'
"In its early stages, the movement against unaccountable AI development has had to face the same questions as any other burgeoning social movement: How do you win broad support? How can you be palatable and appealing while also being sufficiently pointed, extreme enough to get attention but not so much that you sabotage yourself? If the stakes are as high as you say they are, how do you act like it?
"#MichaëlTrazzi, an activist who went on a hunger strike outside #Google #DeepMind’s London headquarters in September, also believes that AI could lead to human extinction. He told me that he believes that people can do things that are extreme enough to 'show we are in an emergency' while still being nonviolent and nondisruptive. (PauseAI also discourages its members from doing hunger strikes.)"
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/l6ACC#AISucks #NoNukesforAI #AIResistance #Terminator #Alphabet #WarBots #SkyNet #Activists
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The Strange Disappearance of an #AntiAI #Activist
#SamKirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.
By Kaitlyn Tiffany, December 4, 2025
Excerpt: "The reaction from the broader #AISafety movement was fast and consistent. Many disavowed violence. One group, #PauseAI, a much larger AI-safety activist group than #StopAI, specifically disavowed Kirchner. PauseAI is notably staid—it includes property damage in its definition of violence, for instance, and doesn’t allow volunteers to do anything illegal or disruptive, such as chain themselves to doors, barricade gates, and otherwise trespass or interfere with the operations of AI companies. 'The kind of protests we do are people standing at the same place and maybe speaking a message,' the group’s CEO, Maxime Fournes, told me, 'but not preventing people from going to work or blocking the streets.'
"This is one of the reasons that Stop AI was founded in the first place. Kirchner and others, who’d met in the PauseAI #Discord server, thought that that genteel approach was insufficient. Instead, Stop AI situated itself in a tradition of more confrontational protest, consulting #GeneSharp’s 1973 classic, The #MethodsOfNonviolentAction, which includes such tactics as #SitIns, '#NonviolentObstruction,' and 'seeking imprisonment.'
"In its early stages, the movement against unaccountable AI development has had to face the same questions as any other burgeoning social movement: How do you win broad support? How can you be palatable and appealing while also being sufficiently pointed, extreme enough to get attention but not so much that you sabotage yourself? If the stakes are as high as you say they are, how do you act like it?
"#MichaëlTrazzi, an activist who went on a hunger strike outside #Google #DeepMind’s London headquarters in September, also believes that AI could lead to human extinction. He told me that he believes that people can do things that are extreme enough to 'show we are in an emergency' while still being nonviolent and nondisruptive. (PauseAI also discourages its members from doing hunger strikes.)"
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/l6ACC#AISucks #NoNukesforAI #AIResistance #Terminator #Alphabet #WarBots #SkyNet #Activists
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"Whatever the merits of the violent option, however, one point is clear. By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority."
- Gene Sharp -
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"Whatever the merits of the violent option, however, one point is clear. By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority."
- Gene Sharp -
@[email protected]
"Whatever the merits of the violent option, however, one point is clear. By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority."
- Gene Sharp -
@[email protected]
"Whatever the merits of the violent option, however, one point is clear. By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority."
- Gene Sharp -
@[email protected]
"Whatever the merits of the violent option, however, one point is clear. By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority."
- Gene Sharp -
CW: #Tyranny ? There's a book for that...!
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CW: #Tyranny ? There's a book for that...!
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CW: From Dictatorship to Democracy & The Anti-Coup #GeneSharp Book
From Dictatorship to Democracy & The Anti-Coup
#GeneSharp Book #Dictatorship to #Democracy
#Anti #Tyranny #Authoritarianism
https://bookshop.org/p/books/fighting-tyranny-bruce-jenkins/17795083?ean=9780648531517
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CW: From Dictatorship to Democracy & The Anti-Coup #GeneSharp Book
From Dictatorship to Democracy & The Anti-Coup
#GeneSharp Book #Dictatorship to #Democracy
#Anti #Tyranny #Authoritarianism
https://bookshop.org/p/books/fighting-tyranny-bruce-jenkins/17795083?ean=9780648531517
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🎧 NEW: "How Nonviolent Struggle Works" by Gene Sharp in our A Radical Audiobook Series. Explore #NonviolentResistance with us! 🔗https://www.radical-guide.com/how-nonviolent-struggle-works-a-radical-audiobook/
#ARadicalGuide #GeneSharp -
🎧 NEW: "How Nonviolent Struggle Works" by Gene Sharp in our A Radical Audiobook Series. Explore #NonviolentResistance with us! 🔗https://www.radical-guide.com/how-nonviolent-struggle-works-a-radical-audiobook/
#ARadicalGuide #GeneSharp -
🎧 NEW: "How Nonviolent Struggle Works" by Gene Sharp in our A Radical Audiobook Series. Explore #NonviolentResistance with us! 🔗https://www.radical-guide.com/how-nonviolent-struggle-works-a-radical-audiobook/
#ARadicalGuide #GeneSharp -
🎧 NEW: "How Nonviolent Struggle Works" by Gene Sharp in our A Radical Audiobook Series. Explore #NonviolentResistance with us! 🔗https://www.radical-guide.com/how-nonviolent-struggle-works-a-radical-audiobook/
#ARadicalGuide #GeneSharp -
🎧 NEW: "How Nonviolent Struggle Works" by Gene Sharp in our A Radical Audiobook Series. Explore #NonviolentResistance with us! 🔗https://www.radical-guide.com/how-nonviolent-struggle-works-a-radical-audiobook/
#ARadicalGuide #GeneSharp -
CW: Gene Sharp - Methods of resistance / actions / things to think about etc...
Gene Sharp - Methods of resistance / actions / things to think about etc...
198+ to consider against violence and towards democracy.
How To Start to solve / mitigate / repel / resolve things...
#GeneSharp Booklet #NVC better #Protest
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"Co-opting the other sides, no need for wars between victims and victims..."
Documentary: How To Start A Revolution
(or maybe How to resolve Capitalism better... ). Short clip at 19.26 about NVC, Gene Sharp etc#GeneSharp Booklet #NVC better #Protest
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MASSE CRITIQUE : THÉORIES ET PRATIQUE
Aujourd’hui, on parle de vous, on parle de nous, qui formons peut-être déjà collectivement — sans le savoir — la masse critique nécessaire pour que se produise un changement profond et durable dans la société.
https://radiomassecritique.tk/2022/06/21/masse-critique-theories-et-pratique/ @biguenique @steph @Jocelyn_C #100ESINGE #CANADA #JULIEPONESSE #ÉLOÏSEBOIES #ERICACHENOWETH #ÉTATSUNIS #FREEDOMCONVOY #GENESHARP #IDRISSABERKANE #KENKEYES #LYALLWATSON #MASSECRITIQUE #QUÉBEC #RUBERTSHELDRAKE #RUSSIE #UKRAINE -
TIL that nonviolence advocate and activist #GeneSharp died in January, 2018. I never met him, but I was one of perhaps millions of activists influenced by his philosophy, his research, and his famous list of nonviolent activist methods. As the indigenous people of my home country say, a great tree has fallen in the forest. I understand this to mean that something important has been tragically lost, but also that a space has opened up for new growth:
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/31/headlines/nonviolent_resistance_advocate_gene_sharp_dies_at_90 -
CW: XR, manipulative Studie
@xrcologne
> Diesen Menschen sollte aufgezeigt werden, dass das nicht unbedingt nötig ist, und das wurde erreicht.Also selbst das Militär arbeitet sei je her auch mit Psychologischerkriegsführung und ist sich sehr wohl bewusst dass es dafür kein Gewehr brauch.
Es sei auch noch an #GeneSharp (berühmter "non-violence" Experte) erinnert, der ein Buch rausbrachte das angeblich *das* Buch für den arabischen Frühlings gewesen sein sollte. Gene hat sich dann mit Dingen geschmückt die Menschen dort erreicht hatten. Die Menschen selbst kannten weder das Buch noch Gene Sharp noch benutzten sie seine Strategien (*erinnere mich gerade nicht mehr genau auf welches Land da zutreffen war. Kann ich nachreichen)
Auch verlinkter Beitrag relevant zu dem Thema:
https://todon.nl/@hambibleibt/102871131397733553> Diesen Menschen sollte aufgezeigt werden...
Welche Menschen meinst du damit?
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#DougHenwood shared part one of a profile of #GeneSharp that portrays him as a promoter of #neoliberal nonviolence and the rule of market imperatives. Got to read the whole thing more carefully, but I don't find the main arguments convincing. It seems to me Sharp saw himself as a non-ideological (anti-ideological?) proponent of nonviolent action for social transformation and decentralization of power.
@ntnsndr is quoted in the piece
https://nonsite.org/article/change-agent-gene-sharps-neoliberal-nonviolence-part-one#foot_src_56-11830
