Tech Giants Call For a Pause in AI Experiments, Fearing "Profound Risks to Society"
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Billionaire mogul Elon Musk and a range of experts called on Wednesday for a pause in the development of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems to allow time to make sure they are safe.
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Companies researching AI are “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,” the letter says.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are among more than 1,000 tech entrepreneurs and artificial intelligence experts who are calling for a pause on the development of AI systems more powerful than OpenAI's GPT-4.
Some of the biggest names in tech are calling for artificial intelligence labs to stop the training of the most powerful AI systems for at least six months, citing "profound risks to society and humanity."
In an open letter signed by Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Israeli futurist Yuval Noah Harari and others, a 6-month pause is outlined for the rapidly expanding world of AI, dominated by ChatGPT and other advancing platforms.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio are among those calling for a pause in the breakneck development of powerful new artificial-intelligence tools.
Some of the biggest names in tech are calling for artificial intelligence labs to stop the training of the most powerful AI systems for at least six months, citing "profound risks to society and humanity."
Labs have been “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,” said an open letter signed by the likes of Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak and politician Andrew Yang.
Billionaire mogul Elon Musk and a range of experts called on Wednesday for a pause in the development of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems to allow time to make sure they are safe.
More than 1,000 tech leaders, researchers and others signed an open letter that urged a moratorium on the development of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems.
Artificial intelligence labs have been urged by Elon Musk and numerous other tech industry figures to stop training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
“Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable,” the letter said.
Sultan Meghji, formerly the chief innovation officer of the FDIC, accused signatories of the letter calling for an AI development pause of acting out of self-interest.
Billionaire mogul Elon Musk and a range of experts called on Wednesday for a pause in the development of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems to allow time to make sure they are safe.
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