In an open letter, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and other industry leaders and AI specialists are encouraging artificial intelligence laboratories to halt the advancement of highly sophisticated AI systems due to serious social concerns.
The co-founders of Apple, Pinterest, and Skype, leading AI academics Stuart Russell and Yoshua Bengio, and AI start-ups Stability AI and Character.ai are among the co-signatories of the letter published by the Future of Life Institute, according to Financial Times.
The Future of Life Institute is run by AI researcher Max Tegmark and funded by Elon Musk, released the letter.
The letter was signed by more than 1,000 individuals, including Elon Musk, who advocated that independent overseers should design safety rules for AI systems.
The institute said OpenAI's most recent deep learning model, GPT-4, "exhibits human-level performance" on numerous professional and academic standards.
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The letter reads: "Powerful AI systems should be created only after we are convinced that their impacts will be good and their hazards will be manageable," per Fox News.
It also warned that no one can comprehend, foresee, or reliably regulate the potent new tools created in AI laboratories at this time.
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To make artificial intelligence systems more reliable, secure, and "trustworthy and loyal," researchers should focus their efforts over the next six months on developing safety procedures and AI governance systems.
The threats that GPT-4 has highlighted were not specified in the letter.
The experts indicated in the letter that if businesses refused to cooperate, governments should step in and enforce a moratorium.
The undersigned IT professionals, including Elon Musk, warn of the likelihood that AI systems may surpass humans and eliminate employment.
Gary Marcus of New York University, who signed the letter, has long claimed that AI chatbots are brilliant liars and can be superspreaders of misinformation, NDTV reported.
