In an open letter published on Future of Life Institute’s website, more than 1,100 signatories have expressed concern regarding what they call an out-of-control race to develop.
In brief: Some of the world’s top tech minds are imploring artificial intelligence researchers to immediately pause work on training advanced systems. The signatories recommend labs should use the downtime to jointly develop and implement safety protocols for advanced AI design, which would be overseen by a team of independent, outside experts.
In an open letter published on Future of Life Institute’s website, more than 1,100 signatories have expressed concern regarding what they call an out-of-control race to develop and deploy increasingly powerful digital brains in which we can’t yet understand, predict or even reliably control.
“Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?”
The warning reads like sci-fi fodder and just a few short years ago, that might have been the case.
