{"id":433411,"date":"2026-08-15T03:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433411\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T03:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:08:21","slug":"im-not-the-one-that-should-be-in-jail-openai-protester-69-turns-herself-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433411\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m not the one that should be in jail\u2019: OpenAI protester, 69, turns herself in"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published Aug. 14, 2026at6:00am<\/p>\n

On the eve of surrendering herself at San Francisco\u2019s Hall of Justice, Wynd Kaufmyn was a flurry of activity: tailoring an old pair of jeans while chatting with reporters about her upcoming incarceration, stopping to pick up coffee and doughnuts for her official send-off at the courthouse Friday morning, and preparing for dinner with friends at one of her favorite restaurants, Ben \u2019N Nick\u2019s in Oakland. <\/p>\n

It was, after all, her 69th birthday.<\/p>\n

Kaufmyn is a member of StopAI, a protest group dedicated to halting the development of artificial superintelligence. Its members regularly participate in acts of civil disobedience<\/a>, such as chaining themselves to the doors of AI companies. In February 2025, StopAI made international news when Kaufmyn and four other members were arrested for barricading the entrance to OpenAI\u2019s headquarters. Kaufmyn, according to the group, is now the first person to be convicted and sentenced to jail for protesting what they call \u201cthe global race to develop artificial general intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

She isn\u2019t exactly looking forward to her time in lockup \u2014 she expects the food to be awful, for one \u2014 but in an interview Thursday, she said she had zero regrets.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Aug. 14, 2026at6:00am On the eve of surrendering herself at San Francisco\u2019s Hall of Justice, Wynd Kaufmyn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2007,3408,7361,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-433411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ai","tag-openai","tag-protests","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}