A Quick-Draft Response to the March 2023 "Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter" by Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noah Harari and others.

Prominent'experts' recently released an open statement for a'pause' to developing AI citing ambiguous risks and yet to be proven'dangers'. I am surprised that exceptionally intelligent persons such as Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noah Harari and others have signed on this. If they had that option, I may have joined in too – with caveats as described below. Before expressing disagreement with parts of this letter, I agree with these set of experts that AI could be misused or abused, and present future dangers. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is of itself not evil or good, nor safe or dangerous. It would have been better to exclude the "PAUSE" as an emphatic part of the open letter / solution.