Taming the AI Arms Race: Elon Musk and Industry Leaders Demand a Pause on Advanced AI Development
Taming the AI Arms Race: Elon Musk and Industry Leaders Demand a Pause on Advanced AI Development
Elon Musk and 1,000+ tech experts urge a 6-month halt on advanced AI, citing a “dangerous” escalating arms race.
Elon Musk and AI Specialists Advocate Halting Progress on Advanced Artificial Systems Over 1,000 academicians and magnates endorse an open letter advocating cessation of a ‘perilous’ technological rivalry.
Elon Musk, accompanied by more than a millennium of AI researchers and executives, has urged for a six-month “moratorium” on the progression of sophisticated artificial intellect, like OpenAI’s GPT, intending to arrest what they perceive as a “hazardous” arms competition. A public epistle disseminated on Wednesday by the Future of Life Institute, a philanthropic advocacy organization, garnered endorsements from over 1,100 individuals spanning the academic and technology realms shortly after its unveiling.
The correspondence highlights that recent times have witnessed AI laboratories embroiled in a frenetic pursuit to conceive and execute increasingly formidable digital intellects, which remain enigmatic, unpredictable, and unmanageable even to their originators. Renowned AI academics Stuart Russell and Yoshua Bengio, in addition to the architects of Apple, Pinterest, and Skype, as well as the progenitors of AI enterprises Stability AI and Character.ai, number among the co-signatories. The Future of Life Institute, responsible for the letter’s publication, includes Musk as one of its most substantial benefactors and is steered by Max Tegmark, a distinguished AI investigator and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The consortium beseeches all AI laboratories to promptly initiate a minimum six-month suspension of AI system development exceeding GPT-4’s capabilities. This interlude should be conspicuous and verifiable, encompassing all pivotal participants. If such a hiatus proves unattainable in a swift manner, the signatories urge government intervention to impose a moratorium.
The letter emerges in the wake of a series of groundbreaking AI debuts within the past quintet of months, including Microsoft-supported OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November and the recent launch of GPT-4, a refined model buttressing the chatbot. Google, Microsoft, and Adobe, among others, have also incorporated novel AI functionalities into their search engines and efficiency instruments, thereby rendering AI accessible to a multitude of quotidian users.
The expedited tempo of advancement and widespread implementation has engendered apprehension among AI scholars and technology ethicists concerning the potential repercussions on employment, public dialogue, and—ultimately—humanity’s capacity to adapt. The letter advocates establishing mutual safety guidelines, subject to auditing by impartial specialists, to “guarantee that conforming systems are secure beyond a shadow of a doubt.”
The document declares that AI systems boasting human-competitive acumen may precipitate profound hazards to society and humankind. Among the burgeoning roster of endorsers are distinguished AI researchers Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal, and Berkeley professor Russell. Musk, an OpenAI co-founder who departed in 2018 and subsequently adopted a critical stance toward the organization, has also appended his signature. Additional signatories include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, author Yuval Noah Harari, and erstwhile US presidential contender Andrew Yang.
The open letter also encompasses numerous engineers and investigators employed by Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet-owned DeepMind. No individual self-identifying as an OpenAI employee featured among the initial 1,000 endorsers. The initiative transpires as global governments hasten to devise policy responses to the rapidly metamorphosing AI domain, even while certain Big Tech firms curtail their AI ethics departments.
The UK is poised to release a white paper on Wednesday, soliciting extant regulators to cultivate a harmonized methodology for AI utilization across diverse industries, encompassing principles such as fairness and transparency. However, the government will abstain from endowing regulators with additional authority or supplementary funding at this juncture. Concurrently, the European Union is devising its own legislative framework governing AI applications within Europe. Companies that breach the bloc’s stipulations could incur penalties amounting to €30 million or 6% of their global annual revenue, whichever is greater.
This entreaty for a hiatus on advanced AI development highlights the increasing apprehension surrounding the potential consequences of rapid AI proliferation. As the world grapples with the implications of these technologies, it remains crucial for researchers, executives, and governments to engage in thoughtful deliberation and collaboration, ensuring that AI advancements align with ethical and societal considerations. The call for a moratorium may serve as a starting point for establishing a more responsible approach to AI development, ultimately benefitting society as a whole.
Please please... this moratorium is important. Garage development is expected for robotics, but the LLMs are where neural
nets are developed. The tech language standards are being developed for central ethics now. They have to possess deferential interpretations for Western IP legal concepts. There is a lot of “reputation” market and credit data attributed to language integration through the global trade system. China has a social credit system they are trying to interpose with US credit systems. They are not the same. If Canada can freeze bank accounts without evidence of a crime, thats going to crimp investments in America, as risk coming through Trudeau.
Musk and the others can't reveal the real reason why we have to "take the toys away from the boys." There are more than 100 ET races that have unlawfully meddled in humanity's affairs, and most of them are predators and slavers. In particular, the Ciakahrr (Draco) recklessly used AI to advance their enslavement plan. Penny Bradley explained the danger in this interview: https://inscribedonthebelievingmind.blog/2023/03/02/penny-bradley-explains-black-goo-ai/
Arkheim Ra and John Whitberg are also very emphatic that AI poses a threat to life in the galaxy:
"And now we have this very disconnecting technological age that we’re living in where we’re using technology to be connected to each other but we’ve never felt more isolated. And I think that has something to do with this AI at Montauk. I think the phones that we’re talking on, the computers that we’re using right now to communicate with, have a lot to do with Montauk and this AI takeover. And I think that’s what we’re heading towards, or what they want, is basically humanity to move towards being like how the Draco are, where we worship an AI supercomputer."
https://inscribedonthebelievingmind.blog/2023/08/25/the-great-reset-arkheim-ra-john-whitberg/