Big Tech is pouring billions into AI while workers face layoffs, buyouts, and growing surveillance. Our livelihoods shouldn’t be collateral damage in the race to build more powerful AI.

You know there’s a problem when someone mentions the “cyberattack this week” and you have to ask which one. Unchecked AI is supercharging these hacks, jeopardizing our safety & privacy. Freeze AI until the are real safeguards in place that we can trust.

Big Tech doesn’t get to call the shots, and LA organizers made that clear this week. Students, workers, and community members took to the streets with Ultraviolet + @quitchatgpt to demand a freeze on AI. They’re fed up with data centers draining local resources and with tech billionaires deciding our future without our consent.

Organizers like Jasmine Bernard in Memphis are making the public need for an AI freeze impossible to ignore. Communities are fighting back against Big AI. They’re blocking the data centers going up in their towns, and they’re pushing back against AI industry super PACs spending millions to influence lawmakers and block regulation.

We’re already planning what comes next. See photos and stories from the walkouts at FreezeAI.Now.

Yesterday, students, workers & neighbors in 50+ cities walked out of class and work to demand an immediate FREEZE on AI. People showed up for different reasons. Some are worried about their jobs, others about rising electric bills, data centers coming to their towns, or what AI means for their kids. Right now a handful of Big Tech execs are making those decisions for everyone else, and we think the rest of us deserve a say.

NOW IN MEMPHIS: Memphis City Council only let in HALF of the hundreds of community members rallying outside. With no overflow room option available, community members wheeled a tv outside to tune into the vote.

Students, organizers, and community members all over the Memphis area right now are standing up against their oppressive city council—that at one point, SILENCED community voices from speaking out against the data center build outs happening in their city. Today, HUNDREDS pack inside #Memphis city hall to vote YES on a data center moratorium. NO MORE until the people get a say.

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds in Memphis are packing the room in city hall to VOTE YES on an AI moratorium on data center build out. Memphis communities deserve A SAY. #FreezeAI

Memphis, we’re packing the room in city hall NOW to vote YES on the data center moratorium.

Charleston, WV says: FREEZE AI NOW. Big Tech billionaires don’t own our futures.

NOW: Bowling Green, OH is walking out for clean water, affordable power, and AI regulation that actually protect the people who live here.

Boston says FREEZE AI. Today we showed up at the State House and joined cities across the country in a national day of action. We can't let Big Tech decide what happens to our schools, our jobs, our futures. Freeze AI. Put enforceable safeguards in place. Put people first.

In Leon County, FL, a data center boom has left some of the most vulnerable ecosystems on the brink of environmental catastrophe. Organizers like Rodnyll are calling out the damage data centers and AI build out are having on communities like the Everglades, and demanding an AI FREEZE to save our lands from irreparable destruction.