Show Notes
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 a think thank and has a PhD in evolutionary biology from Harvard.
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Youtube: https://youtu.be/5RyttfXTKfs
Transcript: https://theinsideview.ai/holly
Outline
(00:00) Holly, Pause, Protests
(04:45) Without Grassroot Activism The Public Does Not Comprehend The Risk
(11:59) What Would Motivate An AGI CEO To Pause?
(15:20) Pausing Because Solving Alignment In A Short Timespan Is Risky
(18:30) Thoughts On The 2022 AI Pause Debate
(34:40) Pausing in practice, regulations, export controls
(41:48) Different attitudes towards AI risk correspond to differences in risk tolerance and priors
(50:55) Is AI Risk That Much More Pressing Than Global Warming?
(1:04:01) Will It Be Possible To Pause After A Certain Threshold? The Case Of AI Girlfriends
(1:11:44) Trump Or Biden Won't Probably Make A Huge Difference For Pause But Probably Biden Is More Open To It
(1:13:27) China Won't Be Racing Just Yet So The US Should Pause
(1:17:20) Protesting Against A Change In OpenAI's Charter
(1:23:50) A Specific Ask For OpenAI
(1:25:36) Creating Stigma Trough Protests With Large Crowds
(1:29:36) Pause AI Tries To Talk To Everyone, Not Just Twitter
(1:32:38) Pause AI Doesn't Advocate For Disruptions Or Violence
(1:34:55) Bonus: Hardware Overhang
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