JUST IN: Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and other tech leaders have signed an open letter to pause training Al models more powerful than GPT-4.
Here’s everything you need to know:
➡ The Open Letter calls for “all Al labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of Al systems more powerful than GPT-4.”
➡It currently has 1127 signatories, including many influential names, such as:
Evan Sharp, Co-Founder, Pinterest
⚫ Chris Larsen, Co-Founder, Ripple
⚫ Jaan Tallinn, Co-Founder of Skype
• Andrew Yang, Presidential Candidate plus various high-profile Al researchers, authors, and developers.
➡The premise of the letter can be boiled down to a
few ideas: • “Powerful Al systems should be developed only once
we are confident that their effects will be positive and
their risks will be manageable.”
⚫ “Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? […] Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? […]
Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders.”
• “Al labs and independent experts should use this pause to jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced Al design and development that are rigorously audited and overseen by independent outside experts.”
“Al research and development should be refocused on making today’s powerful, state-of-the-art systems more accurate, safe, interpretable, transparent, robust, aligned, trustworthy, and loyal.”
LETTER BELOW:
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Pause Giant Al Experiments: ΑΙ An Open Letter
We call on all Al labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of Al systems more powerful than GPT-4.
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Al systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research[1] and acknowledged by top Al labs. [2] As stated in the widely- endorsed Asilomar Al Principles, Advanced Al 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 happening, even though recent months have seen Al labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators understand, predict, or reliably control. – can
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