Day: September 7, 2025

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• I moved to Sydney when I was 30 years old because I wanted a fresh start.
• Now, I’m 43, married with children, and living in the same city.
• I wouldn’t have met my husband and had our kids if I hadn’t left my hometown.

When I decided to move cities at the age of 30, I didn’t foresee how relocating would have such a huge impact on my life.

Little did I know that this decision would lead me to building the family I’d always wanted. I met my now-husband shortly after moving, and we have two kids together.

I was unhappy

Moving cities was triggered by what was probably a quarter-life crisis. I was unhappy with work and relationships, and I started to seriously think about my direction.

I also felt like my hometown, Brisbane, no longer aligned with my current interests and lifestyle preferences. Many of my friends were also going through significant life transitions, including moving to another city or country, changing careers, or starting families.

For me, a new city offered opportunities and different experiences, which I was craving.

The time felt right to do something different

Just after my 30th birthday, I was single and unemployed. For the first time, I didn’t feel anchored to anything.

I had always lived in Brisbane. But it felt like there was something missing.

I eventually decided to try living somewhere else. I loved going to the beach, so I decided to move to a city with beaches.

I narrowed down my move to two very different cities: the Gold Coast (a tourist city) and Sydney (a large, thriving metropolitan area). I applied for market research jobs in both cities and then attended job interviews.

By chance, I was offered a job in Sydney, which has more than twice the population of Brisbane. I remember thinking that a bigger city might have more opportunities for work and love.

Accepting the job and moving cities was the hardest decision I had ever made because it meant I was leaving my family and close friends.

When I decided to give it a shot, I honestly thought I’d be back home in a year, but life had other plans. I sold most of my furniture, packed up my car, and drove 12 hours over two days to start my new life.

Moving cities was exciting and gave me a fresh start

Now, when I reflect on moving cities as a 30-year-old, I think it was a good age to embrace the opportunities and challenges of a significant relocation.

While I was excited about the opportunity to start over, I had some trepidations about doing so. Would I enjoy living somewhere else? Would I get too homesick?

The first thing I wanted to do when I arrived in Sydney was to make new friends and establish a support network. I knew some people, but I had no close friends.

So, I said “yes” to every social invite because I wanted to meet new people to hang out with. However, doing so also meant that I burnt out pretty quickly, so I had to pull it back.

I eventually started to relax, settling into my new work routine and my newly established friendships.

Taking a chance led me to meet my husband and have 2 children

What seemed like the most daunting decision in my life actually turned out to be for the best in terms of what I personally got out of it.

I would never have met my husband if I hadn’t moved cities. I met him within the first year of living in Sydney. Now we have been together for 12 years and have two kids under 5 years old.

During this time, I have also formed many new friendships, for which I feel incredibly grateful. Unfortunately, I’ve also inevitably lost or experienced irrevocable changes to old friendships that didn’t survive the distance between them.

Sydney has far exceeded my desire for new experiences. Even all these years later, there are still many new things to do. And I’ll never get tired of spending time at the beach.

While I have enjoyed living in Sydney, it has also been really hard being away from my parents and siblings in Brisbane. Sadly, I’ve missed out on spending more time with them because we live so far apart.

I’ll never know what would have happened if I had stayed in my hometown, but I’m genuinely happy with everything I have gained since moving to another city.

• Two men are protesting AI development outside the offices of Anthropic and DeepMind.
• Activist Guido Reichstadter has been on a hunger strike for a week.
• Reichstadter and another activist, Michael Trazzi, are demanding AI companies halt AI development.

As AI advances, so too does the desperation of those trying to stop it.

Two men, worried about the threat AI poses to humanity’s future, are now on hunger strike outside the offices of Anthropic and DeepMind.

For Guido Reichstadter, a 45-year-old activist, Sunday marked a week of protest without food. Reichstadter told Business Insider he plans to remain until the company responds to his concerns about the direction of AI development.

“I am calling on Anthropic’s management, directors, and employees to immediately stop their reckless actions, which are harming our society and to work to remediate the harm that has already been caused,” he wrote in a post on LessWrong, an online discussion forum.

While AI leaders from Geoffrey Hinton to Elon Musk have sounded the alarm about the pace of AI development, it has done little to slow progress as companies compete to develop artificial general intelligence, a still theoretical form of AI that reasons as well as humans. Hinton recently said on the “One Decision” podcast that “many of the people in big companies, I think, are downplaying the risk publicly.”

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei himself has issued dire warnings about the potential for white collar job losses. “AI may eliminate 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years,” he said at a developer conference in May.

“We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming. I don’t think this is on people’s radar,” Amodei later told Axios.

Reichstadter is asking Amodei to stop frontier development altogether. He told Business Insider in a phone interview that he delivered a letter to Amodei’s desk on his first day of protest.

“In that letter, I asked him to stop developing that technology and to do everything in his power to stop the race that he’s participating in,” he said. “I told him I’d be out here in front of his office waiting for his answer.”

Until then, he said he’ll subsist on water, electrolytes, and multivitamins.

“In the concrete world in which we’re living right now, all of the frontier labs are racing as quickly as they can to fully general superhuman systems. That’s what needs to stop,” he said. “I think great things could be done with very limited systems that don’t pose the same kinds of risks.”

Reichstadter said in 2022 he went on a 15-day strike without food outside the office of the Miami mayor to draw attention to the climate crisis, and felt like he could have kept going. He said he was so far “feeling good” this time around.

Reichstadter is the founder of Stop AI, a group that describes itself as a “non-violent civil resistance organization working to permanently ban the development of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) to prevent human extinction, mass job loss, and many other problems.”

He told Business Insider he had earlier been arrested for chaining shut the doors of OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco. He said he was heading to trial this month.

Reichstadter has inspired others. Michael Trazzi, a 29-year-old former AI safety researcher from France, has been protesting for three days, without food, outside DeepMind’s London headquarters.

Trazzi told Business Insider he studied computer science and artificial intelligence in Paris, and studied AI safety at
Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, which shut down in April 2024. He spent time working as an AI and software engineer and now creates short-form content on TikTok and YouTube Shorts about AI policy.

Trazzi is also concerned about AI’s rapid development. He told Business Insider that collective pressure on AI executives to make public statements could facilitate change.

“My only ask is, concretely, I want Demis to say that he would not release any more frontier models if the other frontier AI labs were to also stop doing so,” he said, referring to Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s CEO and one of the pioneers of general intelligence. “If enough of those leaders say it publicly, then you get global coordination around a pause.”

Anthropic and DeepMind did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.