AGI Strategies

person

Holly Elmore

PauseAI US executive director

Executive director of PauseAI US; previously a researcher at Centre for Effective Altruism. Visible organizer of in-person protests and policy advocacy for an enforced pause on frontier training.

current Executive Director, PauseAI US

Strategy positions

Pauseendorses

Halt frontier training until alignment catches up

Argues that the only responsible policy given current uncertainty is a global pause on frontier-model training, enforced by treaty if necessary.

We are accelerating toward a technology nobody knows how to control. A pause is the minimum reasonable response while we figure that out.
articlePauseAI US· PauseAI· 2023· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Holly Elmore's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Andrea Miotti

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Founder of ControlAI; pause campaigner

  • Anthony Aguirre

    Anthony Aguirre

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    UC Santa Cruz physicist; FLI co-founder

  • Aza Raskin

    Aza Raskin

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology; Earth Species Project

  • Daniel Kokotajlo

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Former OpenAI governance team member; author of AI 2027 scenario

  • Eliezer Yudkowsky

    Eliezer Yudkowsky

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Founder of MIRI; the original AI-extinction pessimist

  • Emmett Shear

    Emmett Shear

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Former interim CEO of OpenAI; Twitch co-founder

Record last updated 2026-04-25.