{"id":25084,"date":"2026-09-24T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/climate-protesters-say-tech-companies-not-ai-are-the-real-danger-to-humankind-and-the-planet\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:37:15","slug":"climate-protesters-say-tech-companies-not-ai-are-the-real-danger-to-humankind-and-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/climate-protesters-say-tech-companies-not-ai-are-the-real-danger-to-humankind-and-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate protesters say tech companies, not AI, are the real \u2018danger to humankind\u2019 \u2013 and the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activists gathered outside the OpenAI offices on Monday during climate week in New York City<\/p>\n<p>On Monday evening, protesters gathered outside the unmarked Manhattan offices of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, holding signs calling to \u201cEat the rich, save the planet\u201d. Over the next two days, groups also picketed outside the offices of fellow tech giants Google and Amazon; other protesters, including clergy, were arrested while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Ddox4e3R1oA\/\">disrupting a closed-door AI health summit<\/a> in the city. Tonight, protesters will target a Brooklyn gas power plant that was set to close \u2013 until it was purchased to power AI datacenters.<\/p>\n<p>The protests come on the heels of an Anthropic employee quitting his job with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2026\/sep\/15\/ai-doomsday-warning-jacob-coxon-anthropic\">a warning that intensified<\/a> an already-growing AI panic: \u201cThe people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/24\/climate-protesters-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6d7b4ac09c1a7cc7e496eabec88cca48e84f2343\/634_0_5001_4000\/master\/5001.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=277f0b24f8e54c0f9263b2601b863308\" title=\"Climate protesters say tech companies, not AI, are the real \u2018danger to humankind\u2019 \u2013 and the planet\" \/>Activists gathered outside the OpenAI offices on Monday during climate week in New York City<br \/>\nOn Monday evening, protesters gathered outside the unmarked Manhattan offices of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, holding signs calling to \u201cEat the rich, save the planet\u201d. Over the next two days, groups also picketed outside the offices of fellow tech giants Google and Amazon; other protesters, including clergy, were arrested while disrupting a closed-door AI health summit in the city. Tonight, protesters will target a Brooklyn gas power plant that was set to close \u2013 until it was purchased to power AI datacenters.<br \/>\nThe protests come on the heels of an Anthropic employee quitting his job with a warning that intensified an already-growing AI panic: \u201cThe people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists gathered outside the OpenAI offices on Monday during climate week in New York City On Monday evening, protesters gathered outside the unmarked Manhattan offices of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, holding signs calling to \u201cEat the rich, save the planet\u201d. Over the next two days, groups also picketed outside the offices of fellow tech giants &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/climate-protesters-say-tech-companies-not-ai-are-the-real-danger-to-humankind-and-the-planet\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Climate protesters say tech companies, not AI, are the real \u2018danger to humankind\u2019 \u2013 and the planet<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25084"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}