NEWYou can now hear Fox News articles.Guido Reichstadter, a 45-year-old former jeweler, math and physics student, and former activist, climbed 168 feet of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on Friday night. He plans to stay “until war is over,” he told Fox News Digital.Reichstadter climbed this same bridge before in 2022, protesting Supreme Court’s decision in that year to overturn Roe V. Wade. He is protesting the Iran war as well as the development of AI. About 60 people were arrested after a Veterans’ Anti-Ice Demonstration in Washington, DC, according to police. He told Fox News Digital that he works on these things as the spirit moves him. “I knew I would do something from the first day that Iran was bombed. Reichstadter responded, “I’d like to see Congress get a spine and start doing its job.” They are not asserting their constitutional authority to declare war. “REP BRIAN MASTER: DEMOCRATS DO NOT WANT WAR POWERS; THEY WANT A WHITE FLAGWhen Reichstadter was asked if he still would protest if Congress approved it through a War Powers Resolution Act, Reichstadter replied, “it depends on the specifics.” When asked if there was a difference between a country such as Iran having a nuclear weapon and a more stable one, Reichstadter replied that he did not see a huge difference. This is not meant to excuse the Iranian regime’s actions. I’m not making excuses, or under any illusions that it is not an autocratic regime which has committed atrocities on its own people, but the path to a safe future does not involve nuclear weapons held by any state,” he said.Iran has been a U.S. State Department-designated state sponsor of terrorism since 1984. According to the State Department, Iran has been funding Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza as well as other terrorist and militants groups in Iraq and Syria. Reichstadter’s greatest fear was not a nuclear-armed Iran, but rather an ongoing war. His greatest fear was that AI would reach its end.PENTAGON GIVES AI FIRMA ULTIMATUM : LIFT MILITARY RESTRICTIONS BY FRIDAY, OR LOSE $200M DELIVERED”What happens if China or Russia or any other nuclear state fears the United States will develop a technology that will render their nuclear arsenals outdated? He argued that they would be motivated to stop it with any means necessary. “The goal of the pioneer AI companies is not to create chatbots. It’s not for you to do your homework, or to make cute cat videos. He said that the core mission of these companies was to create AI systems that outperform human cognition in every way. Reichstadter had previously been arrested in California on charges related AI protests. He was arrested twice for protesting OpenAI San Francisco’s campus, including one event where he closed the company’s door, he said to Fox News Digital. He was arrested for violating a court order to not return to the campus by 2025. The issue for him is an existential one. He told Fox News Digital that he had two children. “I’ve had a full and rich life.” I’ve married, I have been in love and I’ve had a successful career. I don’t think they’ll have that. “Their future, and the future for the entire human race,” he concluded. Fox News Digital contacted D.C. MPD but did not receive a reply.
