An open letter, signed by over 1,100 AI experts andCEOs, including SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, is calling for a six-month moratorium on « AI experiments. »
An open letter, signed by over 1,100 artificial intelligence experts, CEOs, and researchers — including SpaceX CEO Elon Musk — is calling for a six-month moratorium on « AI experiments » that take the technology beyond a point where it’s more powerful than OpenAI’s recently released GPT-4 large language model.
It’s a notable expression of concern by a veritable who’s who of some of the most clued-in minds working in the field of AI today, including researchers from Alphabet’s DeepMind and the « godfather of AI » Yoshua Bengio.
« AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs, » reads the letter, issued by the nonprofit organization Future of Life, adding that « advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources. »
« Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not happening, » the letter continues, « even though recent months have seen AI labs 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.
