Activist remains perched atop DC bridge protesting Iran war, AI development: 'The spirit moves me'

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An ongoing blockade at the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in Washington, D.C., continues as an activist protesting the Iran war and artificial intelligence (AI) sits atop the Beltway thoroughfare.Guido Reichstadter, 45, a former jeweler and math and physics student, climbed the 168 feet up the bridge Friday night and plans on staying "until the war is ended," he told Fox News Digital.Reichstadter previously climbed the same bridge in 2022, that time protesting the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. This time he is protesting both the Iran war and the development of AI."The situation with AI from my perspective, which I think is the shared perspective of many of the experts, it really couldn't be more dire," he told Fox News Digital in a video interview while perched atop the bridge.ABOUT 60 PEOPLE ARRESTED AFTER VETERANS' ANTI-ICE DEMONSTRATION IN WASHINGTON, DC, POLICE SAYThough his protest coincided with a wave of D.C. "May Day" protests the day before, Reichstadter did not claim to be a part of that movement."With these things, I kind of work as the spirit moves me," he told Fox News Digital, getting slightly emotional. "From the very