Calling on the CEOs-Sam Altman of OpenAI, Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Elon Musk of xAI- to publicly commit to pause frontier AI developments, hundreds of protestors marched to the offices of the three AI companies in San Francisco on Saturday, under the banner of “Stop the AI Race.”
Terming frontier AI- most advanced, large scale foundation AI model-as detrimental to humanity, the protestors who were led by filmmaker and former AI safety researcher Michaël Trazzi, marched from Anthropic’s headquarters at 500 Howard Street in San Francisco to OpenAI’s offices and then to xAI.
These protests are part of a larger protest happening across the world against increasing use of frontier AI models in military operations, with similar demonstrations witnessed in London in February. The protests had intensified after the recent Pentagon deal of OpenAI.
On our way to OpenAI! pic.twitter.com/Hpp1yXQKlL
— Michaël Trazzi (@MichaelTrazzi) March 21, 2026
“To reverse Big Tech’s dangerous momentum, Stop the AI Race is calling on frontier lab CEOs to make a simple public commitment: if every other major AI lab in the world pauses development of more powerful AI systems, they will too,” read a statement from Stop the AI Race group.
Listing their demands, the protestors have asked for, “no new training runs of larger or more general frontier models, focus on narrow AI applications or alignment research instead.” The group has advocated for an international agreement to prevent the “premature creation of artificial Superintelligence.
The Big If: A Global Consensus on AI is a Far Fetched Dream
While the group of protestors demanded CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI, to commit to halt frontier AI operations, if other major AI labs of the world commit the same, the prospect seems remote.
The recent India AI Summit, Paris AI Action Summit and London AI Safety Summit have resulted in “non-binding” and “voluntary” commitments but a global framework on AI development is nowhere in sight. With the recent tensions between US and China related to supply of semi-conductor chips from Taiwan, the classical question remains- who bells the cat?
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