Doom Debates: Holly Elmore on AI Pause Politics and the EA Rift

AI safety becomes a power struggle as Holly Elmore explains why she thinks frontier AI needs a pause, not just better alignment. In this condensed version of Doom Debates, host Liron Shapira talks with Holly, executive director of PAI US, about the shift from protests to Congress, the limits of technical AI safety, and the growing divide inside effective altruism and rationality. The original episode is distilled into a quicker listen so you can get the key arguments without the full back-and-forth. Holly discusses regulation, job automation, AI governance, and why she’s more worried about superintelligence after ChatGPT. She also weighs in on her sharp critiques of Amanda Askell, Joe Carlsmith, Zvi Mowshowitz, and other AI debate figures, arguing that incentives and capture shape the conversation more than people admit. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.