Tech luminaries including Musk and Wozniak beg AI pioneers to hit the brakes
Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and the CEO of Stability AI are among the leading figures in the broader tech industry who have signed an open letter calling for a six month «pause» on the development of advanced artificial intelligence systems including ChatGPT.
The letter was published by the Future of Life Institute(opens in new tab), a non-profit organisation, and has more than 1,100 signatories from across the worlds of academia and technology at the time of writing.
«AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity,» the letter says. “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.”
Consequently, the letter argues that the industry should pause for thought before developing anything more powerful than GPT-4. If that doesn't happen voluntarily, governments should step in.
«We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least six 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.»
Among leading signatories are Emad Mostaque, the founder and CEO of Stability AI, the outfit behind the Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model, Evan Sharp, a co-founder of Pinterest, Chris Larson, a co-founder of cryptocurrency company Ripple, deep learning Yoshua Bengio and Connor Leahy, the CEO of AI lab Conjecture.
Of course, cynics might suggest that many of the signatories could just want some time to catch up with the competition. But
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