"We call on all AI labs to immediately suspend for at least six months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 ... If such a pause cannot be made as soon as possible, then governments should intervene and impose a moratorium, "says an open letter from experts in the field of AI, published on the website of the non-profit organization Future of Life Institute.
According to experts, AI laboratories and specialists in this field should use the pause to develop security protocols.
At the same time, the signatories proposed to make changes in the political sphere, creating regulatory bodies that would deal with AI-related issues, as well as state control systems.
The open letter, in addition to Elon Musk, was also signed by one of the founders of Apple Steve Wozniak, leading experts in the field of artificial intelligence Stephen Russell and Joshua Bengio.
Earlier it became known that a Belgian citizen committed suicide after two months of communication with AI, during which the virtual interlocutor did not interfere with the suicidal thoughts of a person.
Experts from the bank Goldman Sachs reported that the development of services in the field of artificial intelligence can leave about 300 million people without work.