“There will be the first major public protest related to AI. [Prediction for 2025.]”

Anti-AI protest activity did emerge in 2025 — dozens of local anti-data-center campaigns (helping delay or block roughly $156 billion of projects) plus small Stop AI/PauseAI demonstrations — but the first genuinely large, coordinated public protests came later, with 142 simultaneous demonstrations across 42 states on 18 July 2026.