Holly Elmore is an AI Pause Advocate who has organized two protests in the past few months (against Meta's open sourcing of LLMs and before the UK AI Summit), and is currently running the US front of the Pause AI Movement. Prior to that, Holly previously worked at think thank Rethink Priorities and has a PhD in evolutionary biology from Harvard.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/iO9jceWSkdk

Transcript: https://theinsideview.ai/holly

Outline

(00:00) Holly, Pause, Protests

(05:08) Without Grassroot Activism The Public Does Not Comprehend The Risk

(12:27) What Would Motivate An AGI CEO To Pause?

(15:47) Pausing Because Making Enough Progress In AI Safety Research In A Short Timespan Is Risky

(19:16) Thoughts On The 2022 AI Pause Debate

(33:29) On practical implementation of regulation

(42:33) Different risk tolerances

(51:45) Is Existential Risk From AI Much More Pressing Than Global Warming?

(1:04:46) Will It Be Possible To Pause After A Certain Threshold? The Case Of AI Girlfriends

(1:12:33) Trump Or Biden Won't Probably Make A Huge Difference For Pause But Probably Biden Is More Open To It

(1:14:38) China Won't Be Racing Just Yet So The US Should Pause

(1:18:57) Protesting Against A Change In OpenAI's Charter

(1:25:28) A Specific Ask For OpenAI

(1:27:21) Creating Stigma Trough Protests With Large Crowds

(1:30:49) Pause AI Tries To Talk To Everyone, Not Just Twitter

(1:34:17) Pause AI Doesn't Advocate For Disruptions Or Violence

(1:37:05) Bonus: Hardware Overhang