The Hunger Strike To Stop The AI Race

By Michaël Trazzi @ 2026-01-08T21:05 (+12)

This is a linkpost to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qWFq2aF8ZU

I just released a 22-minute long documentary about the hunger strike to stop the AI race, a protest that was featured in publications such as The Verge, The Telegraph and even SkyNews, and received internal support from employees at DeepMind.

A few months ago, during the protest, I wrote a reply to @Mikhail Samin's skeptical comment saying that I was pretty confident that the Google DeepMind hunger strike would turn out to be net positive, but that I was happy to chat more later in the year, looking back.

I think this 22-minute documentary is the best follow-up I could give to Mikhail today if I wanted to explain why I did the hunger strike, and the main impact we had. ^[1]

I'm excited for everyone to watch it! 

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   (There's also much more stuff that happened that didn't make it to the video. You can check the X thread for that).