Elon Musk urged to suspend development of more powerful AI systems

Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, along with a group of AI experts and industry leaders, wrote an open letter citing risks to societyElon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry leaders, in an open letter, citing potential risks to society, call for a six-month pause in the development of systems more powerful than OpenAI Recently launched GPT-4.Earlier this month, Microsoft-backed OpenAI unveiled the fourth version of its AI program GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), which wowed users with natural conversation, songwriting and synthesis of long documents.“Powerful AI systems should only be developed when we are confident that their impact will be positive and the risks will be manageable,” says the letter published by the Future of Life Institute, which is a nonprofit organization according to the EU Transparency Register. organization funded primarily by the Musk Foundation, as well as London-based Founders Pledge and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.“Should we allow machines to flood our information channels with propaganda?…Should we develop non-human minds that could eventually outnumber us, outwit us, render us useless and replace us? the letter asks, stating that “such decisions should not be delegated to unelected leaders of tech companies.”The letter was signed by more than 1,000 people, including Musk. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella, CEOs of Alphabet and Microsoft, did not sign the letter.Signatories to the letter include Emad Mostak, CEO of Stability AI, researchers from Alphabet-owned company DeepMind, and prominent AI experts Yoshua Bengio, often referred to as one of the “godfathers of AI.” , and Stuart Russell, one of the first researchers in this field. .US lawmakers are also asking questions about ChatGPT’s impact on national security and education. European police Europol on Monday warned of the potential use of the system in phishing, disinformation and cybercrime attempts.