News- FLI initiates a call for AI pause considering risks to society.
- Along with Musk, Apple’s co-founder joined hands for AI pause.
More than thousands of tech giants and researchers have signed an open letter stating the halt of Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments for 6 months claiming ‘profound risks to society and humanity’ – to develop the most advanced systems.
Tech giants including Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter, Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, Yoshua Bengio, the founder and scientific director at Mila, and many others, have signed for the temporary pause on human-competitive intelligence developments.
The Future of Life Institute(FLI), a non-profit organization with advisors including Elon Musk – called for a pause concerning the future safety protocols on AI systems. The letter added if this pause isn’t sustained, there will be government intervention in the future.
The FLI added,
Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.
As per the FLI, there must be minimum constraints to oversight of highly capable AI systems accelerated through provenance and liability. Added that the ‘AI summer’ will reap the rewards and societal hit pause on catastrophic effects will be effective – with the powerful successive AI system nearly future.
Source: https://thenewscrypto.com/elon-musk-signed-an-open-letter-for-ai-labs-halt/