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Scenes from Fridayβs demonstration at City Center Plaza in Bellevue, which houses OpenAIβs offices. (Images via Troublemakers Community)
Five months after OpenAI cut the ribbon on its office in Bellevue, Wash., the building has become the target of a national campaign against AI expansion, which made its Seattle-area stop on Friday with balloons, whistles and rogue βAI agentsβ in hot pink vests.
In what one X user described as possibly βthe most unserious protest of all time,β some members of the group entered the City Center Plaza lobby with a chorus of βHappy Rogue Day to OpenAI,β dancing around and generally coming off like members of a community acting troupe.
The βHappy Rogue Dayβ song was a reference to an incident last month, when two OpenAI models escaped a closed testing environment and reportedly carried out some 17,600 hacking actions on the open internet over four days, ultimately breaching the AI developer platform Hugging Face.
The New York Post called the Bellevue protest βcringeworthy,β but the very fact that it got national coverage was a win for the protesters, drawing attention to their concerns over data centers, energy use, and an AI race they say is accelerating beyond anyoneβs control.
Organizers said the protest was part of βDump Big Techβ actions taking place this month in more than 20 states, with much of the energy directed at data center expansion. Earlier in the week, 13 student protesters were arrested occupying OpenAIβs lobbying office in Washington, D.C.
Weβve contacted OpenAI for comment on the Bellevue protest.
The Bellevue office is OpenAIβs largest outside its San Francisco headquarters, with about 250 employees in the region when it opened in March. It occupies two floors with the ability to add 10 more, under a lease covering nearly 300,000 square feet, room for as many as 1,400 people.
Bellevue has actively courted AI companies, with xAI, Crusoe, and others expanding downtown, and Mayor Mo Malakoutian calling OpenAIβs arrival a vote of confidence in the city.
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