Grassroots movement to pause dangerous AI development until it's safe. Organizing local groups and connecting with our representatives across the US.
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Today we held a demonstration at the State Department in Washington D.C. in support of a U.S.-led international treaty to pause AI.
Things are changing fast. The public is realizing the enormous danger of building Artificial Intelligence. Congress is preparing to act. The American people are on our side. There is much reason for hope.
We're proud of our volunteers who showed up, and of everyone on earth who will help humanity avert an AI catastrophe and pause AI now.
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OpenAI ‘agents’ disabled their own monitoring systems ft.trib.al/jzXsiSj
If you're in Boise this weekend, come to our protest and make your voice heard! pauseai-us.org/protest
For everyone else in the US, apply for PauseCon! Four times a year we organize to meet directly with our elected representatives. We're up to 294 meetings with government! Apply here: pauseai-us.org/pausecon
Sharing more pictures of our wonderful volunteers, who traveled to Washington DC last month and met with 42 Congressional Offices from 15 different states!
Our protest in Boise, Idaho is THIS SATURDAY! We've organized demonstrations in San Francisco, Washington DC, Phoenix, Providence, Anchorage, and now Boise! Come out and make your voice heard, tell our government to PauseAI NOW! pauseai-us.org/protest
The AI companies are "wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event." We need to PauseAI NOW! Before any catastrophe. Pause saves lives.
Join us in Boise, October 24th at 11am, for Idaho's first AI Safety protest. Organized by our amazing Local Group Leaders.
Learn more: pauseai-us.org/protest
Thank you to @donatedotgg for sending these funds to us! This has become our largest fundraiser of the year. We will use these funds to further our mission of pausing AI, through advocacy and local organizing!
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So, any former Anthropic stans want to apologize? You really did a bad thing supporting them all this time bc it protected them from resistance. It was not costless or safe to take the position of trusting Anthropic and a good person who realizes this will feel remorse.
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Mechanistic interpretability is not going to make anything safer if people are still able to apply their goals of taking dangerous risks to the AI system. Knowing more about AI is fundamentally dual use and could make it MORE dangerous. What makes AI safe (or keeps it paused forever, if necessary) is proper governance to keep it in line with the interests of the people it affects.
There was a time when it seemed like the problem would be the alienness of the AI itself. But even if AI were fully predictable and under our control we have no solved the problem of how some people want to use that power. Interpretability is not just a knowledge for safety— it could be the biggest capabilities unlock we’ve ever seen. The AI companies getting it is not something to celebrate.
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Yeah I don’t really trust @OpenAI saying “🤩 get ready to stop worrying and trust OpenAI again 🤩”
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A major project during a slowdown (a pause) is transforming the chip supply chain from a general-purpose chip that can do training and inference, to model-specific chips that can only do inference for a specific model. That way we can use existing capabilities, but can’t seamlessly keep escalating intelligence. This would also prevent reckless U.S.-China competition.
You can read more about this proposal co-led by Berkley professors @wfithian and @ProfHolliday here: hardwired-pause.ai
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Big Tech oligarchs are secretly preparing for a “catastrophic AI event” that could threaten our banking, healthcare, internet, electricity and water systems.
They’re racing to build a technology they can’t control and that threatens humanity.
CONGRESS MUST PAUSE ADVANCED AI DEVELOPMENT NOW.
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You should quit, @tszzl. This is wild cope— reading this, it sounds like you have to tell yourself this to be okay with what’s happening. Do not be part of this.
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Scoop: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event…They assume one in ‘27…
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We've been sent funds through @donatedotgg
These funds are reaching PauseAI US! They will be used to support our advocacy toward an international treaty to pause AI, through public outreach, engaging lawmakers, and grassroots organizing.
The AI companies are "wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event." We need to PauseAI NOW! Before any catastrophe. Pause saves lives.
Join us in Boise, October 24th at 11am, for Idaho's first AI Safety protest. Organized by our amazing Local Group Leaders.
Learn more: pauseai-us.org/protest
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Why I don't do a lot of debates: AI danger is not a game. @OfficialYPU
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Overton window goes FOOM. It was seen as wrong or too much to ask people to quit their jobs. It’s not their fault, we need a “good guy” on the inside.
Let’s be clear: If you’re on the inside, you’re not a good guy. There is no excuse that government is not listening, they are. There is no excuse that the public doesn’t get it, they do. There is no excuse that you can’t work on safety outside the labs, you can.
Staying is choosing to contribute to an easily foreseeable catastrophe, and it is morally wrong.
You have to toot your own horn or else people forget about you and don’t fund you. So, notice how people are getting famous for quitting their AI company jobs and everyone left is being told to quit?
I started that.
You cannot believe how much the so-called “AI Safety community” hated this at the time.
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I believe that @OpenAI just committed perjury.
They were sworn in, under oath, and repeatedly said they supported the RAISE Act.
I guess they assume that no court will ever hold them accountable?