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As of this writing, more than 1,100 signatories, including Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Tristan Harris of the Center for Humane Technology, have signed an open letter that calls on \u201call AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.\u201d Says the letter:<\/p>\n
\nContemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,[3] and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
It continues on to argue that there is a \u201clevel of planning and management\u201d that is \u201cnot happening\u201d and that instead, in recent months, unnamed \u201cAI labs\u201d have been \u201clocked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one \u2013 not even their creators \u2013 can understand, predict, or reliably control.\u201d<\/p>\n
The letter\u2019s signers, some of them AI experts, say the pause for which they are asking should be \u201cpublic and verifiable, and include all key actors.\u201d If said pause \u201ccannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium,\u201d the letter continues.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re still digesting this one (while others are already tearing it to shreds<\/a>).<\/p>\n
Certainly, it\u2019s as interesting for the people who have signed \u2014 which includes some engineers from Meta and Google; Stability AI founder and CEO Emad Mostaque; and people not in tech, including a self-described electrician and an esthetician \u2014 as for who have not. No one from OpenAI, the outfit behind the large language model GPT-4, signed this letter, for example. No one from Anthropic, whose team spun out of OpenAI to build a \u201csafer<\/a>\u201d AI chatbot, did either.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, you can read it in full here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n