(10 Feb 2025)
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Paris, France – 10 February 2025
1. Wide of anti-AI protest at Paris’ Bastille square
2. Mid of demonstrators at the protest
3. Close-up of signing reading (English): ‘AI companies don’t know how their AIs think, or how to teach them human values. TELL THEM TO PAUSE’
4. Mid of protester Maxime Fournes
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Maxime Fournes, head of the Pause AI lobbying collective:
“We are scared of AI because the whole field of AI safety is telling us, has been telling us for years, that this is the most dangerous technology ever created, that it poses catastrophic and existential risks for humanity on very short time frames, we’re talking about months, not even years any more now.”
6. Mid of phone
7. Various mid of sign reading (English): ‘WE CAN’T STEER SO LET’S NOT RACE’
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Maxime Fournes, head of the Pause AI lobbying collective:
"There are at the moment on this planet something like 2,000 people who are developing the most dangerous systems, the ones that could cause widespread catastrophes everywhere on the planet. These people need to stop what they are doing. We are not targeting the consumers, we are not targeting everyone, we are not saying: ‘Stop using AI.’ We’re stopping the people who are creating these weapons of mass destruction. (They) need to stop right now. In order to get there, we are suggesting an international treaty that should be signed between the U.S. and China because these are the two main players in this field. We just need to make our decision-makers wake up.”
9. Wide of protesters
10. Various mid of protester holding balloon
11. Various wide of protesters revealing banner reading (English): ‘BIG TECH, TIME TO DUMP FOSSIL FUELS’
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Pierre Terras, Corporate Programme Lead, Beyond Fossil Fuels:
"We are here to ask big tech to dump fossil fuels. We do not accept the toxic relationship that they have together. We are asking them climate leadership. It is not possible that AI fuels the climate crisis now. So to all the world leaders and tech CEOs who will be there discussing at the AI Paris summit, we’re asking them leadership."
13. Wide of protesters holding balloons and banner
14. Mid of protesters chanting
15. Mid of protester holding balloon reading (English): ‘AI + FOSSIL FUELS’
16. Mid of protester holding balloon
17. Various wide of protesters chanting
STORYLINE:
A small group of protesters gathered at Paris’ Bastille Square on Monday, holding banners and voicing their concerns as world leaders and AI entrepreneurs gathered in the French capital for a summit on the rapidly advancing technology.
The protest, organized by the lobbying collective, Pause AI, aimed to draw attention to the urgent need for international regulation of AI development.
Maxime Fournes, head of the collective, said the group is not "targeting the consumers, we are not targeting everyone, we are not saying: ‘Stop using AI.’ We’re stopping the people who are creating these weapons of mass destruction".
Fournes called for an international treaty to halt the development of AI systems, suggesting that it should be signed between the United States and China, the two leading players in the field.
"We need to make our decision-makers wake up," he urged.
Concurrently, climate activists staged a Valentine’s Day-themed protest at the opening of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris.
Pierre Terras, Corporate Programme Lead at Beyond Fossil Fuels, explained the purpose of the protest:
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