More than 1,000 technology leaders and researchers … have urged artificial intelligence labs to pause development of the most advanced systems, warning in an open letter that A.I. tools present “profound risks to society and humanity.”
A.I. developers are “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,” according to the letter, which the nonprofit Future of Life Institute released on Wednesday.
I signed the letter also (although some other people may have signed for other reasons).
May 5, 2023
30,000 signatures by today while the White House now also
pushed Silicon Valley chief executives to limit the risks of artificial intelligence, telling them they have a “moral” obligation to keep products safe, in the administration’s most visible effort yet to regulate AI.