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Holly Elmore

Founder and Executive Director of PauseAI US; evolutionary biologist and AI moratorium advocate

The scale of the danger really could cripple civilization or cause extinction, and the possibility of this alone is reason enough to pursue pausing frontier AI development.

AI Verified (Feb 6, 2026)

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Holly Elmore, “Berkeley Talks: An evolutionary biologist makes the case for pausing AI,” Berkeley News, February 6, 2026.

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Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed

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Slow down AI development

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AI Verified Full-claim match: the quote addresses AI development/capability growth and a slower pace, pause, halt, or explicit rejection/mixed position. Evidence: inction, and the possibility of this alone is reason enough to pursue pausing frontier AI development. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 10d ago

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Holly Elmore votes For

Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems

The governance of superintelligence has to represent the stakeholders of Earth— all people. AI companies cannot grade their own homework. They cannot be allowed to hold so much power that they eclipse democracy.

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Holly Elmore votes For

AI poses an existential threat to humanity

The scale of the danger really could cripple civilization or cause extinction, and the possibility of this alone is reason enough to pursue pausing frontier AI development.

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Holly Elmore votes Against

Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely