--- title: "Stop the AI Race protest — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/stop_ai_race as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Stop the AI Race protest (🌉 San Francisco) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Stop the AI Race protest Stop the AI Race protest is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 0 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 10 points lower than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. 'Stop the AI Race'/PauseAI protests in San Francisco, outside OpenAI and Anthropic, calling for a pause in AI development. First seen on Wikipedia · Sep 13 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources. - **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources - **Hype score:** 0 / 100 · −1.4 in 1 day · −10.4 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 16.8 on Sep 18, 2026 - **Category:** 🌉 San Francisco - **Part of:** [SF AI scene](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_ai_scene.md) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 25 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 16 - **Share of voice:** 0% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | items | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hacker News | mentions | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [Andrew NG: Pausing AI Progress Will Create Much More Harm Than Benefit](https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wmrccf/) — Reddit (r/singularity) · Sep 21 · score 82 · 44 comments 2. [America is getting its AI race with China wrong](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799198) — Hacker News (restofworld.org) · Sep 22 · score 8 · 3 comments 3. [STOP AI NOW -Why are people asking to pause AI - The Hugging Face Incident and AI Safety - #TPE](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stop-ai-now-why-are-people-asking-to-pause-ai-the/id1475013650?i=1000791873575&uo=4) — Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) (The Pakistan Experience) · Sep 27 4. [Talking to my GPT about all of the telemetry from professional football \(soccer\) being used to train a model](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1wr2gen/) — Reddit (r/ChatGPT) · Sep 26 · score 1 · 1 comment 5. [#DataCenters #Economics #StopAI #Environment](https://mastodon.social/@Flowermob/117321055834913746) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 23 · score 2 · 0 comments 6. [Investigadores del Pentágono afirman que la excesiva dependencia de la tecnología de IA de Palantir contribuyó a un ataque estadounidense que mató a 123 niños iraníes. Una investigación inédita del P…](https://neopaquita.es/@vic_101/117320131502976760) — Mastodon (fediverse) (neopaquita.es) · Sep 23 · score 2 · 0 comments 7. [America is in the wrong AI race with China](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811640) — Hacker News (restofworld.org) · Sep 23 · score 8 · 0 comments 8. [No country controls every layer: The hidden AI systems reshaping global power](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848516) — Hacker News (abc.net.au) · Sep 25 · score 3 · 0 comments 9. [GPT-4 learned how to return literally nothing. GPT-3.5 didn’t. I published 31,430 trials. AI labs keep screaming about safety when China and the U.S. won't stop the AI race. Why didn’t Sam Altman say anything?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1wq1n7t/) — Reddit (r/ChatGPT) · Sep 25 10. [GPT-4 learned how to return literally nothing. GPT-3.5 didn’t. I published 31,430 trials. AI labs keep screaming about safety when China and the U.S. won't stop the AI race. Why didn’t Sam Altman say anything? \[R\]](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1wq20nt/) — Reddit (r/MachineLearning) · Sep 25 11. [fanzine A LA GRESCA CON LA IA 😠 mando emails a librerías que sabiendo que el precio final es de 1€, que lo dividimos a medias, y que me piden 10 ejemplares.. solo quieren pagarme sus 5€ después de ha…](https://neopaquita.es/@vic_101/117321165145479917) — Mastodon (fediverse) (neopaquita.es) · Sep 23 · score 1 · 0 comments 12. [The International AI Race May Not Be Won by the Smartest AI](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833615) — Hacker News (phroneses.com) · Sep 24 · score 1 · 0 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 15 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 60% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 53% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 33% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 6.7% of its stories ## Related topics - **Related to:** [AI slowdown](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_slowdown.md), [AGI - superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agi.md), [AI regulation](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_regulation.md) - **Part of:** [SF AI scene](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_ai_scene.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) (12 stories), [Dreamforce 2026](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dreamforce.md) (9 stories), [Sam Altman](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sam_altman.md) (4 stories), [Recursive self-improvement](https://abovethefog.app/topics/recursive_self_improvement.md) (3 stories), [Dario Amodei](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dario_amodei.md) (3 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 1.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 10.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 11.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 9.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 11.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 10.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 10.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 16.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 15.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 14.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 15.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 14.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 14.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 15.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 14.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 13.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 13.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 1.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 1.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 10.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 8.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 1 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Stop the AI Race protest in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=stop_ai_race) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/stop_ai_race) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)