Seems like not all protestors are on the loony fringe. This kind of feels like a 60s style music+protest+party sort of thing. But without the music, which was the glue that held those movements together. Dylan, Baez, Simone, Seeger, Hendrix. A new genre of songwriting is called for. If this kind of social disturbance is going to happen, can we at least get some great music out of it? https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/02/1133814/i-checked-out-londons-biggest-ever-anti-ai-protest/ Despite that urgency, the atmosphere at the march was pleasant, even fun. There was no sense of anger and little sense that lives—let alone the survival of our species—were at stake… Most people I spoke to agreed that technology companies probably wouldn’t take any notice of this kind of protest. “I don’t think that the pressure on companies will ever work,” Maxime Fournes, the global head of Pause AI, told me when I bumped into him at the march. “They are optimized to just not care about this problem." … The organizers had pitched the march as a social event, encouraging anyone curious about the cause to come along. It seemed to have worked. I met a man who worked in finance who had tagged along with his roommate. I asked why he was there. “Sometimes you don’t have that much to do on a Saturday anyway,” he said. “If you can see the logic of the argument, if it sort of makes sense to you, then it’s like ‘Yeah, sure, I’ll come along.’” submitted by /u/AngleAccomplished865
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