Retired Teacher Wynd Kaufmyn Jailed 2 Weeks for OpenAI Protest

1 articles · Updated · Democracy Now! · Aug 20

Sixty-nine-year-old Wynd Kaufmyn is serving a two-week sentence in San Francisco County Jail after being convicted of interfering with a business and other charges tied to a protest at OpenAI.
The Berkeley retired teacher and other StopAI activists chained and locked the front doors of OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters during a sit-in in February last year, making her believed to be the first person jailed for protesting AI development.
Kaufmyn said she joined the action because she sees AI as driving mass surveillance, job losses and broader social harm, and warned that tech companies are racing toward systems that could escape human control.
The report also featured ControlAI director Connor Leahy, who urged government intervention and said creating superintelligence should be criminalized like building a nuclear bomb.