A technological giant put in front of its obligations. This Monday, June 30, dozens of protesters gathered at the bottom of the Google Deepmind headquarters, the Google artificial intelligence laboratory in London.
This rally is an Ai Break initiative, an association of activists that is militated for a deceleration of the AI race in favor of a better technological regulation. The group’s French branch was noticeably at the origin of a parallel forum to the Summit for action on artificial intelligence In February 2025, where it was better to supervise the development of artificial intelligence.
“Stop the race, it’s risky”
As part of this demonstration, activists demanded greater transparency by Google about the development of its Gemini. As Business Insider reports, the American firm had promised to receive external comments about her models at the Sun Summit on AI in 2024.
He also promised to make public the participation of certain external organizations in the risk assessment of his AI. Google would only have partially respected these commitments.
Protesters care about a lower regulation towards this AI. “Currently, AI companies are less regulated than sandwiches stores,” she said Hugues, a Business Insider’s pause manager. Pauseai activists organized a court in front of Google offices, where they sang the slogan “stop the race, it is not safe” (translated by “Stop The Race, it is risky”).
A skepticism that grows
If the group wishes to raise awareness about a maximum of citizens in these questions, it will be difficult to slow the anarchic race in AI. Some texts such as AI Act try to regulate their uses in Europe. But these laws quickly face the export of Chinese and American technologies, much less observe security problems.
At the same time, other movements similar to a pause were born worldwide, as algorithms earn on performance. Starting with the world of music and cinema that was quickly threatened with technology soon capable of replacing certain trades.
Hollywood was marked in 2023 by a massive attack to alert the dangers of the generative AI in the sector. In France, a rally took place in December 2024 at the initiative of dubbing actors, also concerned about deep vowels.
Source: BFM TV
