{"id":25282,"date":"2026-10-06T08:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/pull-the-plug-protesters-resort-to-direct-action-against-ai-firms\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:37:42","slug":"pull-the-plug-protesters-resort-to-direct-action-against-ai-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/pull-the-plug-protesters-resort-to-direct-action-against-ai-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pull the plug\u2019: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign groups report surge in membership after a spate of AI safety alerts and apocalyptic warnings<\/p>\n<p>In a bar below Waterloo Bridge, a cell of a fast-growing anti-AI protest movement met last week to plot their latest move: disrupting a tech industry dinner being addressed by a senior executive from the chip maker Nvidia.<\/p>\n<p>Emma, a 28-year-old bartender, had never before taken direct action and was the most nervous of the four plotters from Pull The Plug, one of a growing number of AI-focused campaign groups around the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/oct\/06\/pull-the-plug-protesters-resort-to-direct-action-against-ai-firms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c8e5d42e1a557862182577de9c2f72e61899aec2\/237_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=50410ecbc4aae0a4f76cccb90aa790a3\" title=\"\u2018Pull the plug\u2019: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms\" \/>Campaign groups report surge in membership after a spate of AI safety alerts and apocalyptic warnings<br \/>\nIn a bar below Waterloo Bridge, a cell of a fast-growing anti-AI protest movement met last week to plot their latest move: disrupting a tech industry dinner being addressed by a senior executive from the chip maker Nvidia.<br \/>\nEmma, a 28-year-old bartender, had never before taken direct action and was the most nervous of the four plotters from Pull The Plug, one of a growing number of AI-focused campaign groups around the world. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign groups report surge in membership after a spate of AI safety alerts and apocalyptic warnings In a bar below Waterloo Bridge, a cell of a fast-growing anti-AI protest movement met last week to plot their latest move: disrupting a tech industry dinner being addressed by a senior executive from the chip maker Nvidia. Emma, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/pull-the-plug-protesters-resort-to-direct-action-against-ai-firms\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Pull the plug\u2019: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25283,"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\/25282"}],"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=25282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}