AI Protests, Kalshi Fraud Controls and Reverse Engineering

So high school students and college students across the country have been trying to coordinate something that feels like an AI protest movement.

It's one that's specifically aimed at OpenAI.

John, is this like, uh, I know it's a grassroots thing, but I, I'm trying to figure out how widespread this is and whether or not it might mushroom into something larger.

What do you think?

It's, you know, it's the beginning.

It's, to me, it kinda warms my heart.

I mean, I, I go to demonstrations, not frequently, but maybe once every few months, and the one thing that always stands out to me, and everyone talks about this at the, at the rallies, is that there's nobody under 50 there.

They're all older people, and they're like, "Where are the young people?" So maybe it took OpenAI and its various challenges and issues to kind of create this, this movement.

I mean, it's modest at first, but as we all know, these modest...

Indivisible started as a very small movement, and it grew into this national phenomenon, and I think maybe the same things at work here.

So we had US and high school, US high school and college students leave their classrooms in San Francisco, Boston, New York, Charlottesville, Virginia, and they took to the streets.

They had a plenty of placards.

They were, in a sense, ostensibly talking about their issues with OpenAI.

And because unlike maybe previous issues which they weren't as engaged with, perhaps, I don't know, they're more directly affected economically and personally.

I think about the jobs market and how it's gonna be roiled by AI, and, you know, on top of things, on top of the impact that OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are gonna have on the job market, there's this report out that OpenAI is building its own humanoid robot.

You've got Amazon at a million industrial robots now in their workplace.

So there is this movement, and it's, uh, these grassroot groups, Irreplaceable and Stop the AI Race, they wanna freeze on generative AI development because they want stricter safety guidelines, guardrails, public oversight.

They don't believe in self-regulation.

And it, it shows, I mean, this has been fomenting.

This is, this is a show of force or at least of a, of singular voice.

There have been polls that have come out showing a general displeasure, a higher displeasure actually, among younger people towards AI and the impact it's gonna have on them.

Um, they're impacted d- not just in terms of jobs, but privacy and, and they are just particularly concerned about creative content creation, and, uh, they're impacted.

So when you're impacted directly by something, you go out and you raise your voice.

So I do think there is some traction to this, and it, it is a midterm election, which is a highly volatile season that we're in.

We're in the last couple weeks.