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297 - Guest: Holly Elmore, AI Pause Advocate, part 1
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- Feb 23, 2026
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This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . In 2023 a global movement called Pause AI started, advocating for a pause in the development of powerful AI, and on the show we have its co-founder, Holly Elmore. Their website says “We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably, and strong public buy-in.” Holly is the founder of the Pause AI US group, and has organized protests in their name. She was formerly an evolutionary biologist, with a PhD from Harvard. We talk about what the Pause movement stands for, overlaps with animal welfare strategies, why pausing is an effective aim and why we need it, the pros and cons of limiting AI training by compute metrics, and comparing AI safety to the airline industry. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines! Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.