Elon Musk and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak among over 1,100 who sign open letter calling for 6-month ban on creating powerful A.I. The key takeaways: 🚦 The letter asks innovators to stop building new, more powerful AI's The letter urges technology companies to immediately cease training any A.I. systems that would be “more powerful than GPT-4,” which is the latest large language processing A.I. developed by OpenAI. 🤖 AI is now ‘Human-competitive’ The letter says that with A.I. systems such as GPT-4 now “becoming human-competitive at general tasks,” there were concerns about risks from such systems being used to generate misinformation on a massive scale as well as about mass automation of jobs. 🧠 The path to superintelligence The letter also raises the prospects of these systems being on the path to superintelligence that could pose a grave risk to all human civilization. ⚖ This is about Governance It says that decisions about A.I. “must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders” and that more powerful A.I. systems should only “be developed once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.” ⏸ Pause new AI development The letter says that the development and refinement of existing A.I. systems can continue, but that the training of newer, even more powerful ones should be paused. 🔬Focus on deploying trusted AI efficiently “A.I. research and development should be refocused on making today’s powerful, state-of-the-art systems more accurate, safe, interpretable, transparent, robust, aligned, trustworthy, and loyal,” the letter says. 🤝 Work together to build ‘Robust’ governance The letter also calls on governments to use the six-month window to “dramatically accelerate development of robust A.I. governance systems.” 🤐 Neither OpenAI nor any of the large technology companies developing these powerful A.I. models have commented yet on the open letter. https://lnkd.in/gjv8dDeh