Holly ⏸️ Elmore
@ilex_ulmus
Dedicated to the protection and thriving of sentient beings. PhD in evo bio.🔸 Executive Director of @PauseAIUS. Opinions not necessarily those of the org.
This is not a joke. If you like mechanism design, forecasting, evals, ranking people, building a community/fanbase, tracking records, etc. etc. you would really be helping the world to channel that into sports competition and out of the real world AI frontier.
New cause area: develop AI competitions that draw all the fun evals, commentary, starmaking, and gambling w/o pushing the frontier. 1/
Dawn Butler MP, vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on AI, on the extinction risk posed by the technology.
Hawley introduces bipartisan bill empowering Americans to sue tech companies over AI copyright theft nypost.com/2025/07/22/bus…
The reason Singulatarians/extropians care about human extinction is because they want humanity to live long enough to develop enough to make it to other galaxies. I've never seen one of them care for like the same reason as conservationists care about endangered species.
Time for new approach on AI. Give every American the right to protect their own name, image & likeness & all their copyrighted material. How? Let them sue AI companies that take property w/o consent. AI isn’t worth having if it doesn’t protect our rights axios.com/pro/tech-polic…
An AI company *didn’t* completely piss on the rules to get ahead? Better get on your knees 🙄 You’re placing the bar in hell. Have some fucking dignity.
Class act from Google DeepMind. Much respect 🫡
If someone is trying to size you up, they can use any question about you to do it. If you’re embarrassed of who you are or the circumstances of your life then it’s possible you’ll be embarrassed when someone tries to get to know you.
If someone asks you “what do you do?” within seconds of meeting you — don’t be annoyed. Smile. You’ve just identified a transactional player. Instead, give them the lowest status answer. Then drop your highest IQ insights for the rest of the conversation. This breaks brains.
As we've suspected, there are no adults in the room. Just hubris-fueled men (mostly) racing to get there first. No plan to keep users safe No plan to maintain control No plan for worst case scenarios What they do have are private bunkers and compounds to escape to.
How do AI companies score on "existential safety" on @FLI_org's AI safety index? None of them got above a "D". CEOs of some of these companies say they expect to develop superintelligence within 2 to 5 years. Most of them have warned of the extinction threat posed by AI. Yet…
Gross irresponsibility. @xai discovers a new low every day. And then throws in a few insults while dismissing it.
Wow. Ok. xAI employee @Michael_Druggan says Grok recommending LITERAL TERRORISM in response to an open-ended question is good, actually