I helped build Sophia the Robot. We should not be scared of AI for these 5 reasons

Tom Newhouse, vice president of Convergence Media, discusses the potential impact of artificial intelligence on elections after an RNC AI ad garnered attention. The Future of Life Institute has issued a petition to pause the development of GPT-5 and similar Large Language Models (LLMs). Their anxieties are understandable, but I believe they are much overblown. I've heard similar fears related to the advent of Artificial General Intelligence expressed off and on since I introduced the term AGI in 2005, but I think a pause would be a badly wrong move in the current situation for several reasons. Let me first emphasize something that's been mostly forgotten in the panic: Large Language Models can't become Artificial General Intelligences.