New Delhi: A graduate of IIT-Delhi and UC Berkeley is the unlikeliest of activists against Artificial Intelligence.
But that’s exactly what 24-year-old Samuel Shadrach from Bengaluru is doing. He is on a hunger strike against the creation of superintelligent AI.
He is not alone. He is part of an internet movement. Others include Guido Reichstadter in San Francisco, former AI researcher Michael Trazzi in London, and Denys Sheremet, a student from Amsterdam. The three camped outside AI company offices and streamed their fasts, while Shadrach kept them company on YouTube. Show Full Article
The protests are directed at major AI labs—including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic—which have openly declared their goal of building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and, eventually, super