Evolutionary biologist and founder and executive director of PauseAI US, a grassroots organization advocating a pause in frontier artificial intelligence development.
What DI has documented
DI has documented statements by Holly Elmore on Artificial Intelligence. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.
Role at the time: Founder and Executive Director of PauseAI US, confirmed by the organization's official biography; personal account response.
Condemned
Statement summary
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.
After leaving Anthropic, Jacob Coxon said Anthropic and OpenAI were irresponsibly racing toward self-improving superintelligence, while praising Anthropic's current practices. Responses dispute catastrophic-risk forecasts, working inside AI labs, and whether governments should pause or regulate development.