Michaël Trazzi

French filmmaker and former AI safety researcher; founder of Stop the AI Race and The Inside View, a media company producing documentaries and interviews on AI safety. Studied in Paris and worked in AI for three years specializing in safety and alignment research before transitioning to filmmaking and activism.

Through The Inside View, Trazzi conducted over 40 interviews on AI safety and alignment, building an audience of over 50,000 followers across YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter with more than 7 million total views. His documentaries include 2024: The Year of Artificial General Intelligence (2024), SB-1047: The Battle for the Future of AI (2025) — a short documentary drawing on over 20 interviews with politicians, activists, and researchers — and The Hunger Strike to Stop the AI Race (2026).

Beginning 5 September 2025, Trazzi staged a hunger strike outside Google DeepMind's London office demanding CEO Demis Hassabis publicly commit to halting frontier model development if all other major AI companies worldwide did the same. He ended the action on medical advice after fainting approximately one week in. That action cohered into Stop the AI Race, which Trazzi subsequently built into the leading coordinator of US street-level AI moratorium activism — organizing the March 21, 2026 San Francisco march (~200 participants) and the July 11, 2026 march (~400 participants, described as the largest AI protest in American history at the time).