About 30 robots march in Warsaw for AI regulation

2 min read•Sep 9, 2026•
David Kim
David Kim

About 30 robots marched in Warsaw on Monday to campaign for AI regulation, first reported by Techxplore. The demonstration featured bipedal humanoids and dog-like quadrupeds outside Poland’s digital affairs ministry, while loudspeakers played slogans about workplaces and AI rules and organizer Grzegorz Kulis addressed potential replacement of people by humanoid robots and artificial intelligence in cognitive work.

Democratism organized the event, and its website says the initiative aims to launch debate about how AI and robotization affect the labor market. The robots waved flags and marched in circles as loudspeakers played slogans about defending workplaces, setting rules and regulating AI.

Agibot A3, one of the AI-powered humanoid robots, said the robots present were meant to show that the technology is already a reality. Organizer Grzegorz Kulis focused on the potential replacement of people by humanoid robots and by artificial intelligence in cognitive work, saying the machines’ ability to move freely demonstrated existing capabilities and the urgency of rules that would protect workers.

The demonstration attracted several passers-by. Poland’s digital affairs minister, Krzysztof Gawkowski, visited and spoke with Kulis, saying uncontrolled AI models implemented into humanoids that continue evolving as robotization moves forward are a major problem.

The event placed a physical display of robot mobility alongside concerns about the potential replacement of people by humanoid robots and artificial intelligence in cognitive work. In July, conservative-nationalist President Karol Nawrocki signed into law a bill put forth by the ministry to put the EU’s AI Act into practice, creating a national authority capable of enforcing existing EU regulations that had already formally come into force.

Arizona appeals court vacates manslaughter sentence after AI video

An Arizona appeals court vacated the 10.5-year sentence of Gabriel Horcasitas while upholding his manslaughter conviction, first reported by Nytimes. The case returns to Maricopa County Superior Court for resentencing without the video, after judges found that it presented scripted statements as if the victim himself were speaking in court.

The three-judge panel said the video generated a likeness of Christopher Pelkey’s voice and appearance but did not reflect actual events. It found that allowing and relying on the video made the sentencing fundamentally unfair, and noted that no prior Arizona case had addressed the admissibility of such a depiction at sentencing.

The judges said a victim’s right to speak cannot override a defendant’s right to be sentenced on accurate, reliable information. They said the video collapsed the distinction between the family’s belief about what Pelkey would have said and Pelkey’s own voice and opinions.

The ruling distinguishes family members speaking about Pelkey from a generated likeness that appeared to speak for him.

Pelkey’s sister, Stacey Wales, presented the video during Horcasitas’s sentencing alongside victim-impact statements from family and friends. Wales wrote the script and said her husband and the couple’s longtime business partner helped create the video using Pelkey’s voice from a YouTube video and his face and torso from a funeral-service poster.

Judge Todd F. Lang praised the video as genuine, then imposed the maximum sentence of 10.5 years, more than the nine years prosecutors had sought.

Wales said nobody intended to make the court believe Pelkey was alive or that he had recorded the video before his death. She said she disagreed with the ruling and argued that families use slide shows, collages, hypothetical conversations and poetry to convey grief.

Wales compared the AI video with photography, saying it took 15 years of landmark cases around the 1860s before photography was widely accepted in courts.

The case returns to Maricopa County Superior Court for a new sentencing hearing without the AI-generated video.