Civil-disobedience group demanding a permanent ban on AGI development.
Stop AI is a small direct-action group that blocks doors and stages hunger strikes to demand a ban on AGI. It split from PauseAI over tactics and has had turbulent leadership.
Focus
- Pause/moratorium
Funding, as far as we know
Small donations; unknown beyond that
What they've actually done
Members arrested for blockading OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters; a member later stood trial
2025-02
Co-founder Guido Reichstadter held a 30-day hunger strike outside Anthropic while allies struck outside Google DeepMind London
1 September 2025
Both co-founders removed from leadership in 2025 amid internal disputes; group condemned the April 2026 attack on Sam Altman
2025-2026