Holly Elmore says Anna Wang should quit over her AI risk post
Holly ElmoreFounder and Executive Director of PauseAI US, confirmed by the organization's official biography; personal account response.
Replying to Wang's acknowledgement that no viable scientific plan exists for recursively self-improving AI risks, Elmore argues that admitting this while remaining at the lab is unacceptable and that Wang should quit.
“You can’t just post this without quitting.”
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Is Anthropic acting responsibly while advancing toward recursive self-improvement?
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and said that Anthropic and OpenAI are acting irresponsibly by racing toward self-improving superintelligence. In a fuller interview, he praised Anthropic's current practices and denied that it was already cutting corners; his criticism concerns the competitive race and the pressures he expects it to create. Responses dispute the evidence and timing of catastrophic-risk forecasts, whether continued work inside AI labs can be justified, and whether governments should pause development or regulate its continuation. The record distinguishes these disagreements from arguments about the rhetoric of public warnings.
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Full primary public post and available surrounding thread. Related context: https://x.com/a_nnawang/status/2097720574500102615 https://www.pauseai-us.org/about/ Speaker and position scope are explained in the linked event.
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The reply appears directly beneath Wang's personal-capacity thread, which endorses the risk concern but argues that Wang can reduce risks from inside a lab.
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Elmore follows her demand to quit with a personal condemnation of Wang and a statement that she should be jailed. Record this as Elmore's rhetoric, not as evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
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Why this label?
Condemns Wang's decision to remain at a lab after acknowledging severe unresolved risks.
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