Oct 19, 2026, 4:00 PMThere's this petition being promoted by a growing number of youtube channels which I find really misleading:
At the top level, it's promoted as being about "keeping humans in control of AI". If you look just a little deeper, however, the effort is being supported by the "Center for AI Safety".
Read a little bit on their website and you'll find that the most recognizable signatories on their other statements are industry insiders like Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Geoff Hinton.
The research they conduct is centered around unscientific topics like "AI Wellbeing", which basically means making sure that language models aren't exposed to tasks which would hurt their non-existent feelings.
A lot of the content creators signing this petition genuinely seem opposed to AI slop and the aggressive buildout of data-centers. I doubt they realize that they're aligning themselves with the owners of the companies behind all that nonsense.