Tesla CEO Elon Musk and tech titans have united and called for a moratorium on the development of dangerous AI, saying training AI beyond GPT-4 may spell disaster for humanity. The open letter say "We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4." Let me present you the news and what has happened and then will read for you the text of the letter.
Hello friends and welcome to TorqueNews.com Youtube show. Today, I am discussing an open letter signed by industry leaders, AI experts, and Elon Musk. The letter calls for a six-month pause on the development of artificial intelligence systems that exceed OpenAI's GPT-4. So Tesla CEO Elon Musk, AI experts, and industry leaders have signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause on the development of artificial intelligence systems that exceed OpenAI’s GPT-4 due to potential risks to society and humanity as a whole.
The reason for this call for a pause on training AI exceeding GPT-4 is the potential risks to society and humanity as a whole. The signatories of the letter, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, highlight the potential disruptions to politics and the economy caused by human-competitive AI systems.
The letter also calls for collaboration between developers, policymakers, and regulatory authorities. The signatories believe that powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.
The open letter requests that all AI labs immediately pause the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months. This pause should be public and verifiable, and all key actors should be included. If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.
During this pause, AI labs and independent experts should jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development. These protocols should be rigorously audited and overseen by independent outside experts to ensure that systems adhering to them are safe beyond a reasonable doubt.
The letter is not perfect, but the spirit is right. It highlights the need to slow down until we better understand the ramifications of developing advanced AI systems. As New York University professor Gary Marcus, a signatory of the letter, said, "They can cause serious harm... the big players are becoming increasingly secretive about what they are doing, which makes it hard for society to defend against whatever harms may materialize."
In conclusion, the open letter signed by industry leaders, AI experts, and Elon Musk highlights the potential risks to society and humanity as a whole posed by the development of advanced AI systems. It calls for a six-month pause on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4, during which time shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development should be developed and implemented. The spirit of the letter is right, and we must slow down until we better understand the ramifications of developing advanced AI systems.
You can find the link to the open letter here. I think it allows you to even sign it. But here is what the letter's text:
AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research[1] and acknowledged by top AI labs.[2] As stated in the widely-endorsed Asilomar AI Principles, Advanced AI 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 not happening, even though 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.
Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,[3] and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable. This confidence must be well justified and increase with the magnitude of a system's potential effects. OpenAI's recent statement regarding artificial general intelligence, states that "At some point, it may be important to get independent review before starting to train future systems, and for the most advanced efforts to agree to limit the rate of growth of compute used for creating new models." We agree. That point is now.
Therefore, we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 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.
AI labs and independent experts should use this pause to jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development that are rigorously audited and overseen by independent outside experts. These protocols should ensure that systems adhering to them are safe beyond a reasonable doubt.[4] This does not mean a pause on AI development in general, merely a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities.
AI 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.
In parallel, AI developers must work with policymakers to dramatically accelerate development of robust AI governance systems. These should at a minimum include: new and capable regulatory authorities dedicated to AI; oversight and tracking of highly capable AI systems and large pools of computational capability; provenance and watermarking systems to help distinguish real from synthetic and to track model leaks; a robust auditing and certification ecosystem; liability for AI-caused harm; robust public funding for technical AI safety research; and well-resourced institutions for coping with the dramatic economic and political disruptions (especially to democracy) that AI will cause.
Humanity can enjoy a flourishing future with AI. Having succeeded in creating powerful AI systems, we can now enjoy an "AI summer" in which we reap the rewards, engineer these systems for the clear benefit of all, and give society a chance to adapt. Society has hit pause on other technologies with potentially catastrophic effects on society.[5] We can do so here. Let's enjoy a long AI summer, not rush unprepared into a fall.
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