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The movement to head off an AI catastrophe

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Holly Elmore
WXXI News

The emerging conventional wisdom is that artificial intelligence cannot be stopped, so we should try to shape it to our benefit.

An organization called PauseAI has a different view. Its leaders believe that we should listen to what the tech companies are telling us, and act accordingly.

Those companies say that we are on the precipice of major job loss, and we could eventually see a risk to the survival of the human species.

We discuss strategies that PauseAI is using to try to alert the public and change course.

Our guest:

  • Holly Elmore, founder and executive director of PauseAI US 

Evan Dawson is the host of "Connections with Evan Dawson." He joined WXXI in January 2014 after working at 13WHAM-TV, where he served as morning news anchor. He was hired as a reporter for 13WHAM-TV in 2003 before being promoted to anchor in 2007.
Megan Mack is the executive producer of "Connections with Evan Dawson" and live/televised engagement programming.
Julie Williams is an associate producer for "Connections with Evan Dawson." She started at WXXI in 2019 and has been working on Connections since 2022.