Primi firmatari: Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak.
jc*
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter**
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/We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the
training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
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https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
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AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks
to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research^[1] and
acknowledged by top AI labs.^[2] As stated in the widely-endorsed
Asilomar AI Principles
<https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/ai-principles/>, /Advanced AI
could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and
should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources/.
Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not happening,
even though recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control
race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one
– not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control.
Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general
tasks,^[3] and we must ask ourselves: /Should/ we let machines flood our
information channels with propaganda and untruth? /Should/ we automate
away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? /Should/ we develop
nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and
replace us? /Should/ we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such
decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. *Powerful AI
systems should be developed only once we are confident that their
effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.* This
confidence must be well justified and increase with the magnitude of a
system's potential effects. OpenAI's recent statement regarding
artificial general intelligence
<https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond>, states that /"At
some point, it may be important to get independent review before
starting to train future systems, and for the most advanced efforts to
agree to limit the rate of growth of compute used for creating new
models."/ We agree. That point is now.
Therefore, *we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6
months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4*. This pause
should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a
pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and
institute a moratorium.
AI labs and independent experts should use this pause to jointly develop
and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design
and development that are rigorously audited and overseen by independent
outside experts. These protocols should ensure that systems adhering to
them are safe beyond a reasonable doubt.^[4] This does /not/ mean a
pause on AI development in general, merely a stepping back from the
dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with
emergent capabilities.
AI 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.
In parallel, AI developers must work with policymakers to dramatically
accelerate development of robust AI governance systems. These should at
a minimum include: new and capable regulatory authorities dedicated to
AI; oversight and tracking of highly capable AI systems and large pools
of computational capability; provenance and watermarking systems to help
distinguish real from synthetic and to track model leaks; a robust
auditing and certification ecosystem; liability for AI-caused harm;
robust public funding for technical AI safety research; and
well-resourced institutions for coping with the dramatic economic and
political disruptions (especially to democracy) that AI will cause.
Humanity can enjoy a flourishing future with AI. Having succeeded in
creating powerful AI systems, we can now enjoy an "AI summer" in which
we reap the rewards, engineer these systems for the clear benefit of
all, and give society a chance to adapt. Society has hit pause on other
technologies with potentially catastrophic effects on society.^[5] We
can do so here. Let's enjoy a long AI summer, not rush unprepared into a
fall.
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