LogInMore than a thousand researchers and tech companies' CEOs, including Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Emad Mostaque, have signed an open letter, urging AI companies to halt the advancement of artificial intelligence.
Multiple AI researchers and CEOs of big-league tech companies have recently signed an open letter, calling for an immediate pause for the development of AI technologies, urging AI companies to halt the advancement of artificial intelligence at least for half a year.
Published by the Future of Life Institute, the letter states that for the past several months, AI developers 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". Noting that "powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable", the statement calls AI labs to "[step] back from the AI race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities."
"Therefore, we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium," reads the open letter. "AI labs and independent experts should use this pause to jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development that are rigorously audited and overseen by independent outside experts. These protocols should ensure that systems adhering to them are safe beyond a reasonable doubt."
At the time of writing this, the letter has already been signed by more than a thousand individuals, with the list of signatories including Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter, Apple's Co-Founder Steve Wozniak, Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, Jaan Tallinn, Co-Founder of Skype, Co-Founder of Pinterest Evan Sharp, and hundreds of AI researchers and developers from various companies.
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