AI, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Max Tegmark: The Crucial Conversation Around AGI
AI and Its Possible Future: Insights from Trump, Musk, and Tegmark
More than 33,000 people—including a hall of fame of AI experts—signed a March 2023 open letter calling on the tech industry to pause development of AI models more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4 for six months rather than continue the rush toward Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI. “Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable,” stated the letter, spearheaded by the Future of Life Institute.
While the industry did not heed the letter’s call, it generated substantial publicity for the notion that AGI could spiral out of human control unless robust safeguards were implemented before they were needed. This marked only one of several initiatives by the decade-old institute to foster dialogue about AI risks and promote responsible technology steering.
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