From Google to Microsoft, top AI experts at tech giants sign open letter on AI threat
After April 2023, Elon Musk along with other AI scientists again signed an open letter on Tuesday regarding dangers posed by AI to humanity.
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Highlights
- AI experts unify to speak on the drawbacks on rising AI adoption
- This letter comes amid the recent US-EU Trade and Technology Council meeting in Sweden
In a short open letter published on Tuesday, the CEOs of the top artificial intelligence companies in the world joined forces with hundreds of other AI scientists and experts to make their most congruent statement to date regarding the existential dangers AI poses to humanity.
The declaration, which was signed by more than 350 people and released by the Centre for AI Safety (CAIS), stated that, "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."
AI experts discuss regulating this space
From OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman to Google's DeepMind Chief executive, Demis Hassabis, top AI specialists voiced their deep concerns about AI's exponential growth, especially after the introduction of OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT in November 2022.
This letter comes amid the US-EU Trade and Technology Council meeting in Sweden where the leaders have discussed AI regulation.
"Our letter mainstreamed pausing, this mainstream's extinction," said FLI President Max Tegmark, who also signed the more recent letter.
Tech giants come together urging to halt AI developments
Well, it's not the first time that technological innovation has prompted tech giants to take the action of signing an open letter. Numerous AI specialists, including Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, signed a letter in January 2015 calling attention to the negative impacts of AI on society.
Again in April 2023, Elon Musk called for a halt to the AI progress more powerful than GPT-4,( generative pre-trained transformer) this time with 1,800 signatories, including cognitive scientist Gary Marcus, Apple Co-Founder, Steve Wozniak, along with Microsoft and Google researchers.
Elon has signed the Open Letter calling for a 6 Hour Pause on AI Developments.
— Smoke-away (@SmokeAwayyy) May 26, 2023
Who else will join us? https://t.co/47oM8A0pan
Moreover, on 1 May, the Godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, made headlines by stepping down from his position at Google, citing reasons about the risks posed by AI to humanity.
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