Anders Eidesvik
A young man on a BMX bicycle pulls a wheelie in a parking lot directly in front of an approaching white Waymo robotaxi with rooftop lidar sensors, looking back over his shoulder.
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AI in the Bay Area

2025

An ongoing series documenting how artificial intelligence shows up in everyday San Francisco — on sidewalks, at protests, in storefronts, and at City Hall.

01

Wheelie

A young man on a BMX bicycle pulls a wheelie in front of an approaching Waymo robotaxi in a parking lot at California Avenue Station, Palo Alto, Sunday, September 28, 2025.

A protester in a red Stop AI shirt and surgical mask holds up a hand-drawn placard depicting a skull inside a radiation symbol, reading 'No to Super Intelligence'.
02

No to Super Intelligence

A protester from Stop AI holds a hand-drawn placard reading 'No to Super Intelligence' outside OpenAI's offices at 1455 3rd Street, San Francisco, Friday, September 26, 2025.

A man stands beside a chalkboard sign reading 'HUNGER STRIKE DAY 25 ANTHROPIC: STOP THE RACE TO ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE' outside a glass-fronted office building.
03

Hunger Strike, Day 25

Activist Guido Reichstadter on day 25 of his hunger strike against the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), outside the offices of Anthropic at 500 Howard Street, San Francisco, Friday, September 26, 2025.

Wide view of a Worldcoin Orb biometric scanner mounted in a slatted-wood enclosure with overhead lighting. A wooden sign reads 'Join the real human network'.
04

Join the Real Human Network (wide)

A Worldcoin Orb on display at World's flagship store at Union Square, San Francisco, Monday, June 9, 2025.

California State Senator Scott Wiener, in glasses and a gray cardigan, speaks into a microphone outdoors with a smiling man in a Patagonia vest beside him, framed loosely by an out-of-focus listener in red.
05

SB-53

California State Senator Scott Wiener, author of SB-53, speaks at an outdoor event in San Francisco, Saturday, October 25, 2025. SB-53, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, regulates large AI model developers and was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom in September 2025.

A line of protesters on a downtown sidewalk holds signs reading 'Stop AI', 'AI Will Kill Us All', 'AI Steals Your Work to Steal Your Job', and 'Honk if you don't like AI', backed by a red flag.
06

Stop AI

Protesters from Stop AI demonstrate against OpenAI outside its offices in Mission Bay, San Francisco, Friday, September 26, 2025.

A lone protester in a bucket hat stands on a sidewalk holding a homemade sign reading 'Humans over AI' as cars pass on a wide downtown street.
07

Humans Over AI

A protester who identified himself as 'Yakko' holds a sign reading 'Humans Over AI' to passersby outside OpenAI's offices at 1455 3rd Street, San Francisco, Friday, September 26, 2025.

A bald man in a black t-shirt and jeans leans into the open passenger window of a black Ford SUV marked with police lights, framed by a green street pole on a downtown SF street.
08

OpenAI Security

A member of OpenAI's private security speaks with officers from the San Francisco Police Department during a Stop AI protest outside OpenAI's offices at 1455 3rd Street, San Francisco, Friday, September 26, 2025.

A pedestrian in a white cap walks past a downtown San Francisco bus shelter where two electronic poster panels mid-transition spell 'BUILD BUILD AI AGI' and 'TALK TALK TO THE GREATS', advertising ElevenLabs.
09

Build Build AI AGI

The accidental message 'Build Build AI AGI' appears as electronic posters transition between ElevenLabs advertisements at a downtown San Francisco bus shelter, Tuesday, June 10, 2025.