AI Experts Call For Pause In Development Of Advanced Systems - Dataconomy

On Tuesday, the Future of Life Institute published an open letter signed by around 1,000 AI experts and tech executives, including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, urging AI labs to pause the development of advanced AI systems that surpass GPT-4. The letter cites "profound risks" to human society as the reason for the call to action and urges a halt in the training of such systems for at least six months, which must be public, verifiable, and include all public actors. The group argues that AI systems with human-competitive intelligence pose significant risks to society and humanity, as demonstrated by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs. They believe that advanced AI systems could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources. However, they argue that this level of planning and management is not happening, as AI labs are engaged in a race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one, not even their creators, can understand, predict, or reliably control.