What's your p(Pause)? with Holly Elmore

About this episode

Holly Elmore discusses the importance of ensuring AI safety before developing powerful AI systems.

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 DeepMi...

People in this episode

Guest: Holly Elmore

Topics covered

• AI safety
• public protests
• technology ethics
• PauseAI
• Holly Elmore

Keywords

• AI
• PauseAI
• Holly Elmore
• safety
• public protests
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PauseAI US, Google DeepMind

Places: Parliament Square, London, UK

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