👉🏻 https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
Future of Life, a non-profit organization, published a letter in which SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, philanthropist Andrew Yang, and about a thousand other artificial intelligence researchers called for an "immediate suspension" of the training of AI systems "more powerful than GPT-4"
The letter, issued by the non-profit Future of Life Institute called for a pause on advanced AI development until shared safety protocols for such designs were developed, implemented and audited by independent experts
The letter also detailed potential risks to society and civilization by human-competitive AI systems in the form of economic and political disruptions, and called on developers to work with policymakers on governance and regulatory authorities
Too late. Stopping AI research now is akin to giving up your guns when everyone already knows the secret to gunpowder. Good people who foolishly give up their guns are at the mercy of the bad people who don't. Likewise with AI technology; AI is a powerful force multiplier for psychological/memetic warfare, and each day it only gets easier and easier to independently develop. The genie is out of the bottle and there's no going back; to give up on AI now means surrendering the mental arms race to those who do not give it up.