PauseAI US ⏸️

Grassroots movement to pause dangerous AI development until it's safe. Organizing local groups and connecting with our representatives across the US.

[PauseAI US ⏸️ @pauseaius]

192 meetings with lawmakers, 47 volunteer-led local groups in 29 states, and media appearances across the political spectrum.

PauseAI US is raising $450k to fund another year of operations, and hire a second Organizing Director to support our growing grassroots movement!

See our accomplishments and plan for the next year (link below).

[PauseAI US ⏸️ @pauseaius]

Proud of our UCSB Local Leader speaking out about AI on college campuses: Many members, he said, “don’t want AI to trump our academic, maybe our political, maybe our cognitive processes.”

Read the piece here: https://t.co/qMRlO2pCZZ

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@AWar1586398 @Jan_Erik_Vinje Are you aware that we are already in treaties with China?

[PauseAI US ⏸️ @pauseaius]

2 months, 2 years, 20 years. It's all too soon and too reckless to build smarter-than-human AI. We need to #PauseAI

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

In a public statement just provided to ControlAI, Sir Stephen Fry urges MPs to back our bill to ban superintelligence!

"The possibility of AI reaching Superintelligence presents threats to our species of equal if not greater potential for existential harm than nuclear power."

[PauseAI US ⏸️ @pauseaius]

The goal of the AI companies is to build something more intelligent than humans. We do not know if they will succeed, but we should not let them try.

[PauseAI US ⏸️ @pauseaius]

LLMs have a lot of information but that doesn’t mean they know what’s true and what isn’t. They misunderstand and misremember. Even an accurate dataset can be presented in such a way as to give them false beliefs.

[Owain Evans @OwainEvans_UK]

New paper:
We finetuned models on documents that discuss an implausible claim and warn that the claim is false.
Models ended up believing the claim! Examples:
1. Ed Sheeran won the Olympic 100m
2. Queen Elizabeth II wrote a Python graduate textbook

[Holly ⏸️ Elmore @ilex_ulmus]

We have good legislation for vetting models already introduced, Hawley (R) and Blumenthal (D)’s AI Risk Evaluation Act, which you can message or call your reps about here: https://t.co/lmy3hTEUvR

[Financial Times @FT]

Opinion: It is rare for the US public to agree on anything these days. Fear of AI is as close to a national consensus as it gets. A clear majority says that AI will do more harm than good. https://t.co/xf8zRnVRt0

[Holly ⏸️ Elmore @ilex_ulmus]

#PauseAI mentioned!!🎆

[Holly ⏸️ Elmore @ilex_ulmus]

AI danger is a bipartisan concern. In fact, it’s a human concern.

[PauseAI US ⏸️ @pauseaius]

Our PauseAI Boise leaders were featured in the New York Times this week! "From Indiana to Idaho, a Backlash Against A.I. Gathers Momentum" Read the article: https://t.co/8UWCy6PSJT

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Read the full article here: https://t.co/h34HCD7d4L

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PauseAI US was featured in the New York Times when @nytimes profiled our superstar Boise local group leaders Jack and Cathryn!

[Tom Bibby @tombibbys]

working out an international treaty with your adversary to ban superintelligence is a way easier task than controlling superintelligence

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The people building AI admit they may not be able to control it.

This is not science fiction—this is what experts are telling us.

That’s why I’m bringing together leading AI scientists from the U.S. and China to discuss the risks posed by AI. https://t.co/GLmCJ0cFiQ

[PauseAI US ⏸️ @pauseaius]

And we need your help! Our plan is to support 75 active local groups by end of year, drive hundreds of constituent meetings with representatives in their home districts and DC, and keep presenting our simple message to the public: Pause AI.

Support us at https://t.co/cWudE1B3rT, or email [email protected]

[PauseAI US ⏸️ @pauseaius]

192 meetings with lawmakers, 47 volunteer-led local groups in 29 states, and media appearances across the political spectrum.

PauseAI US is raising $450k to fund another year of operations, and hire a second Organizing Director to support our growing grassroots movement!

See our accomplishments and plan for the next year (link below).

[PauseAI US ⏸️ @pauseaius]

Our most recent event, PauseCon DC, was a success! Our volunteers met with 74 congressional offices in Washington DC and spoke plainly with their representatives about the threat of extinction from AI.

Read a review from a MIRI employee who attended: https://t.co/pY5O0RwXtT

[PauseAI US ⏸️ @pauseaius]

PauseAI US's Executive Director Holly Elmore appeared on War Room today:

[Bannon’s WarRoom @Bannons_WarRoom]

Holly Elmore: Anthropic is the one i hate the most, i think it's Anthropic final boss. Meaning, I think they're the one that is going to be left. @ilex_ulmus