Pull The Plug Disrupts Nvidia Dinner as 300-Member Anti-AI Movement Gains Pace
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Updated · The Guardian · Oct 6
Pull The Plug Disrupts Nvidia Dinner as 300-Member Anti-AI Movement Gains Pace
1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Oct 6
Summary
Four Pull The Plug activists interrupted a London tech dinner featuring a senior Nvidia executive, unfurling a banner and shouting against Nvidia and Palantir before being removed.
Hundreds also rallied outside Palantir’s London headquarters last Thursday, part of a broader push driven by fears over rogue AI agents and warnings that superintelligent AI could pose existential risks.
Pull The Plug, launched in January, says it has about 300 members and backing from an anonymous AI-industry funder; it embraces direct action that other anti-AI groups reject.
PauseAI Global said sign-ups quadrupled across 17 countries, with weekly volunteers jumping to 681 after a prominent Anthropic researcher warned AI could "kill us all" by decade’s end.
Campaigners say opposition is widening from students to conservationists fighting datacentres, while researchers warn unmet demands for AI accountability could draw more activists toward violence.