The text is signed by more than 1,000 people, including entrepreneur Elon Musk, Apple founder Steve Wozniak and a range of researchers and actors in the field. They demand greater safety thinking in the development of new AI services and want, among other things, to see clearer regulation in the form of safety protocols and regulatory authorities.
"The development is so fast that the politicians haven't really caught up. Therefore, we need to take a little break now so that society can catch up," says Max Tegmark, professor of physics and researcher in AI.
Robot recommended divorce fair
The letter is published a couple of weeks after the company and the research laboratory Open AI presented the fourth version of its famous GPT program, GPT-4. The senders want to see a temporary halt in the development of services aimed at becoming even more powerful than the last. According to Max Tegmark, there is a risk of losing control of the technology.
"We have already seen that GPT-4 and such systems have advised people to divorce or encouraged young people to commit suicide.
Risk of abuse
Open AI had a major impact on the public when the chatbot Chat GPT was launched in November 2022.Voices have been raised regarding ethical and legal pitfalls and that the technology may be misused. Earlier this week, Europol announced that it is investigating how and whether AI might be exploited for criminal purposes such as phishing and spreading disinformation.
The company Open AI has not commented on the statement.