Elon Musk and experts say AI development should be paused immediately

Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts are calling for a pause in the training of powerful AI systems due to the potential risks to society and humanity. The letter, issued by the non-profit Future of Life Institute and signed by more than 1,000 people, warned of potential risks to society and civilisation by human-competitive AI systems in the form of economic and political disruptions. "AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity," the letter warns. "Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable." It called for a six-month halt to the "dangerous race" to develop systems more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched GPT-4.