(Just in) 1,100+ Prominent Figures Call for 6-Month Pause on AI Labs
An open letter has been signed by over 1,100 prominent individuals - including Woz and Musk - urging all AI labs to halt their operations for a minimum of six months.
Not so long ago in our galaxy…
Well, friends, looks like there was an update today
Within hours of its release, an open letter from the non-profit organization Future of Life Institute, signed by over 1,100 prominent individuals in academia and the technology industry, including Elon Musk, called for a six-month "pause" in the development of sophisticated AI systems such as OpenAI's GPT, in order to prevent a potentially hazardous arms race.
Recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one — not even their creators — can understand, predict or reliably control.
We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least six months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.
- The Group
The co-signers of the letter comprise renowned AI professors, Stuart Russell, and Yoshua Bengio, along with the co-founders of Apple, Pinterest, and Skype, as well as the founders of Stability AI, an AI start-up. The Future of Life Institute, which released the letter, has Elon Musk as one of its prominent funders and is headed by Max Tegmark, an AI researcher, and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
We’ve already heard this before but where?
Elon already warned us about a potentially apocalyptic scenario back in 2017.
The list of signatories has been temporarily paused due to an overwhelming number of requests to add signatures:
No individual from the team at OpenAI, which created the GPT-4 model, nor anyone from Anthropic, a group that originated from OpenAI and aimed to develop a "safer" AI chatbot, have signed the letter.
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