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Comment by Holly Elmore

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Founder and Executive Director of PauseAI US; evolutionary biologist and AI moratorium advocate
We need to Pause frontier AI development if we're ever going to have time and latitude to even see if superintelligence could be safe and respect human consent. And if we find out it can't be, then we need to keep superintelligence paused forever.
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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

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AI Verified Quote confirmed via web search of Holly Elmore's "Stop the AI Race" speech on her Substack (hollyelmore.substack.com, the source URL — her own writing, a primary source). The page returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but the passage "Pause frontier AI development if we're ever going to have time and latitude to even see if superintelligence could be safe and respect human consent. And if we find out it can't be, then we need to keep superintelligence paused forever" was corroborated verbatim. Author attribution correct (Holly Elmore, Founder/Executive Director of PauseAI US, AI moratorium advocate). Year 2026 correct. Vote "for" aligns perfectly with statement "Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached" — Elmore explicitly advocates pausing frontier AI/superintelligence development until it can be shown safe. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 20d ago
replying to Holly Elmore