In an open letter, Elon Musk and a group of business executives and academics on artificial intelligence called for a six-month moratorium on the training of systems more potent than GPT-4, citing potential threats to society and mankind.
More than 1,000 people, including Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, signed the letter, which was published by the non-profit Future of Life Institute. The letter called for a hold on advanced AI development until standardized safety protocols for such designs were created, put into place, and independently audited by experts.
The letter also described the possible dangers that human-competitive AI systems could pose to society and civilization in the form of economic and political upheavals and urged developers to collaborate with regulators on governance and regulatory agencies.
The letter comes as the EU police agency Europol on Monday joined a chorus of ethical and legal worries over cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT, warning about the potential abuse of the system in phishing attempts, disinformation campaigns, and crimes.
Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which was released last year, has encouraged competitors to produce comparable solutions and businesses to incorporate it or related technologies into their apps and products.
