Tech Leaders Ask For A Pause On Big AI Projects But

Last week, in an “open letter” signed by Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and also by representatives from various fields (including robotics, machine learning, and computer science), urged for a 6-month pause on “giant AI experiments,” saying it represents a risk for humanity.Since then, I’ve been following some specialists’ opinions and I invite you to join me in a reflection on this scenario.

What is The Real Weight of This Letter

At first, it’s easy to sympathize with the cause, but let’s reflect on all the global contexts involved. Musk himself fired his “Ethical AI” Team last year, as reported by Wired, Futurism, and many other news sites at that time.

It’s worth mentioning that Musk, who co-founded Open-AI tech-leaders-ask and left the company in 2018, has repeatedly attacked them on Twitter with scathing criticisms of ChatGPT’s advances.

Sam Altman, co-founder of Open-AI, in a conversation with podcaster Lex Fridman, asserts that concerns around AGI experiments are legitimate and acknowledges that risks, such as misinformation, are real.

Also, in an interview with WSJ, Altman says the company has long been concerned about the security of its technologies and that they have spent more than 6 months testing the tool before its release.

AI Ethics And Regulation A Real Need

Despite a race to develop increasingly intelligent LLM solutions, little tech-leaders-ask progress has been made toward regulation and other necessary precautions.If we think about it, it would not even EG Lists be necessary to focus on “apocalyptic” events, those of long duration, such as those mentioned in the letter, to confirm the urgency. The current and fateful problems generated by “misinformation” would suffice.