Our guest in this episode is Holly Elmore, who is the Founder and Executive Director of PauseAI US. The website pauseai-us.org starts with this headline: “Our proposal is simple: Don’t build powerful AI systems until we know how to keep them safe. Pause AI.”

But PauseAI isn’t just a talking shop. They’re probably best known for organising public protests. The UK group has demonstrated in Parliament Square in London, with Big Ben in the background, and also outside the offices of Google DeepMind. A group of 30 PauseAI protesters gathered outside the OpenAI headquarters in San Francisco. Other protests have taken place in New York, Portland, Ottawa, Sao Paulo, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Oslo, Stockholm, and Sydney, among other cities.

Previously, Holly was a researcher at the think tank Rethink Priorities in the area of Wild Animal Welfare. And before that, she studied evolutionary biology in Harvard’s Organismic and Evolutionary Biology department.

Selected follow-ups:

Holly Elmore - substack
PauseAI US
PauseAI - global site
Wild Animal Suffering... and why it matters
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia
The Unproven (And Unprovable) Case For Net Wild Animal Suffering. A Reply To Tomasik - by Michael Plant
Leading Evolution Compassionately - Herbivorize Predators
David Pearce (philosopher) - Wikipedia
The AI industry is racing toward a precipice - Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
Nick Bostrom's new views regarding AI/AI safety - reddit
AI is poised to remake the world; Help us ensure it benefits all of us - Future of Life Institute
On being wrong about AI - by Scott Aharonson, on his previous suggestion that it might take "a few thousand years" to reach superhuman AI
California Institute of Machine Consciousness - organisation founded by Joscha Bach
Pausing AI is the only safe approach to digital sentience - article by Holly Elmore
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers - book by Geoffrey Moore

Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration

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