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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Robert Booth

The first anti-AI protester to be jailed has a message for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta: ‘Regain your humanity’

Woman in fifties dress sitting at table with plant on it.
Activist Wynd Kaufmyn in the living room of her home in Berkeley, California, on 13 August. Photograph: Winni Wintermeyer/The Guardian

An activist who blocked the entrance to one of the world’s biggest AI companies is believed to have become the first person jailed for protesting against artificial intelligence as supporters dub her the “Rosa Parks of AI risk”.

Wynd Kaufmyn, 69, surrendered herself on Friday to authorities in San Francisco. She was found guilty by a jury for her role in an action last year that saw members of the group StopAI chain and lock the front doors of OpenAI’s headquarters in protest against the pursuit of artificial superintelligence.

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