From 2a590d647d1923499e5e04b8e6f5efec2a8401d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tom-bibby99 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:25:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] =?UTF-8?q?Create=20Post=20=E2=80=9Cdeepmind-protest-2?= =?UTF-8?q?025=E2=80=9D?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md diff --git a/src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md b/src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e2263f6f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +--- +title: "PauseAI presents: The Google DeepMind Protest" +slug: deepmind-protest-2025 +description: We are organising a protest to hold Google DeepMind to account for + their broken promises. +date: 2025-06-30T17:00:00.000Z +--- +# + +PauseAI presents: The Google DeepMind Protest + +## Google DeepMind have broken their promises + +​In 2024, Google made a public commitment at the AI Summit in Seoul. They signed the Frontier AI Safety Commitments, pledging to conduct rigorous testing of their AI models with independent third-party evaluators before release and provide full transparency about the process, including government involvement. + +​Then came March 2025, when Google released Gemini 2.5 Pro - their most advanced AI model yet. When safety experts looked for the promised testing report, they found nothing. No external evaluation. No transparency report. Just silence. + +​A month later, under pressure, Google published a barebones "model card" with some internal evaluations but no mention of external evaluations. They later added vague references to "external testers" but provided no details. When Fortune asked directly whether governments were involved, Google refused to answer - violating their transparency pledge. + +​This wasn't Google's only broken promise. They had made similar commitments to the White House in 2023 and signed the Hiroshima Process International Code of Conduct in 2025. With the Gemini Pro release, Google appears to have violated all three sets of safety commitments. + +Sign up to our protest [here](https://lu.ma/bvffgzmb). + +## Unsafe AI development threatens us all + +​While today's AI models aren't dangerous enough to cause mass destruction, AI development is accelerating unpredictably. We need rigorous testing of each generation to avoid being caught off-guard by sudden leaps in capability. More importantly, Google's casual disregard for safety commitments sets a dangerous precedent. + +​As AI becomes more powerful, competitive pressures will intensify and the stakes will grow higher. If we allow companies to ignore safety commitments now, when the risks are relatively low, what hope do we have of holding them accountable when AI systems could pose existential threats? + +​The norms we establish today will shape how the most powerful technology in human history is developed. + +## Let's hold DeepMind Accountable + +​PauseAI is a growing movement refusing to accept that AI safety should be an afterthought. On June 30th, we're gathering outside Google DeepMind's London headquarters with a simple message: Stick to your commitments. + +​Our ask is simple - just that Google honour the promises they've already made. Conduct proper external testing before releasing AI models and publish transparent reports about the results. + +​Our ultimate goal is a moratorium on frontier AI development until we can ensure advanced systems will be safe. But we need one thing right now: basic accountability from one of the world's most powerful AI companies. + +​The future of AI will be shaped by the precedents we set today. + +​**We call on Google DeepMind to:** + +1. ​**Establish clear definitions** of "deployment" that align with common understanding - when a model is publicly accessible, it is deployed. +2. ​**Publish a specific timeline** for when safety evaluation reports will be released for all future models. +3. ​**Clarify unambiguously**, for each model release, which government agencies and independent third-parties are involved in testing, and the exact timelines of their testing procedures. + +Join us in London on the 30th of June by signing up [here](https://lu.ma/bvffgzmb). From 4cbe484a5d15aa1a6e3d2c796c22d3e189fad428 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tom-bibby99 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:26:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] =?UTF-8?q?Update=20Post=20=E2=80=9Cdeepmind-protest-2?= =?UTF-8?q?025=E2=80=9D?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md b/src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md index e2263f6f1..ae85728c7 100644 --- a/src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md +++ b/src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md @@ -5,9 +5,7 @@ description: We are organising a protest to hold Google DeepMind to account for their broken promises. date: 2025-06-30T17:00:00.000Z --- -# - -PauseAI presents: The Google DeepMind Protest +# PauseAI presents: The Google DeepMind Protest ## Google DeepMind have broken their promises From 20ca36c063c7d70f67083d12255cdd3b9a837719 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tom-bibby99 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:34:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] =?UTF-8?q?Update=20Post=20=E2=80=9Cdeepmind-protest-2?= =?UTF-8?q?025=E2=80=9D?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md b/src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md index ae85728c7..7f1341a8e 100644 --- a/src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md +++ b/src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md @@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ description: We are organising a protest to hold Google DeepMind to account for their broken promises. date: 2025-06-30T17:00:00.000Z --- -# PauseAI presents: The Google DeepMind Protest - ## Google DeepMind have broken their promises ​In 2024, Google made a public commitment at the AI Summit in Seoul. They signed the Frontier AI Safety Commitments, pledging to conduct rigorous testing of their AI models with independent third-party evaluators before release and provide full transparency about the process, including government involvement. From bb647588b40d36a84c3616294df95e95b8cf4ac2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tom-bibby99 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:02:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] =?UTF-8?q?Update=20Post=20=E2=80=9Cdeepmind-protest-2?= =?UTF-8?q?025=E2=80=9D?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md b/src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md index 7f1341a8e..e28da76fd 100644 --- a/src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md +++ b/src/posts/deepmind-protest-2025.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ description: We are organising a protest to hold Google DeepMind to account for their broken promises. date: 2025-06-30T17:00:00.000Z --- +In London, on the 30th of July, PauseAI will be holding our biggest protest yet. Sign up [here](https://lu.ma/bvffgzmb). + ## Google DeepMind have broken their promises ​In 2024, Google made a public commitment at the AI Summit in Seoul. They signed the Frontier AI Safety Commitments, pledging to conduct rigorous testing of their AI models with independent third-party evaluators before release and provide full transparency about the process, including government involvement.