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Sources:

• The AI Backlash Gets Professional https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/irreplaceable-climate-activists-ai-backlash/688404/
• Irreplaceable Careers https://irreplaceable.org/careers
• I'm working with a really special group of people to build a grassroots movement to ensure AI benefits us all https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tristanzucker_im-working-with-a-really-special-group-of-activity-7493054288357638145-QIbB/
• Distributed Organizer Contractor https://tally.so/r/WObr6v
• Stop the billionaire race to replace humanity https://action.eko.org/a/support-pro-human-ai-0
• The Pro-Human AI Declaration (PDF) https://futureoflife.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/pro-human-ai-declaration.pdf
• Elon Musk-funded nonprofit run by MIT professor offered to finance Swedish pro-nazi group https://expo.se/nyhet/elon-musk-funded-nonprofit-run-mit-professor-offered-finance-swedish-pro-nazi-group/
• The reality is there is a race between people who are trying to build a God-like entity that will basically most likely kill everyone, and us https://bsky.app/profile/pauseai.bsky.social/post/3m6wu3kb7qv2p
• QuitGPT https://quitgpt.org/

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• Ineffective altruism — FTX and the future robot apocalypse https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/02/06/ineffective-altruism-ftx-and-the-future-robot-apocalypse/
• Vox: Arts funding is an outrage! Averting AI doom is much more effective altruism https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/12/vox-arts-funding-is-an-outrage-averting-ai-doom-is-much-more-effective-altruism/
• How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot)

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