Sono l'unico ad essere pessimista sull'effettiva possibilità di 
fermare/sospendere la corsa all'AI?

Buona giornata

D.
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From: nexa <nexa-boun...@server-nexa.polito.it> on behalf of J.C. DE MARTIN 
<juancarlos.demar...@polito.it>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 7:09 AM
To: nexa@server-nexa.polito.it <nexa@server-nexa.polito.it>
Subject: Re: [nexa] Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

Alcuni commenti di Emily M. Bender (Univ. of Washington):
https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1640920936600997889?s=61&t=47Wex2-4P32-eiduz-Pq5A

jc

On 29/03/23 08:47, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote:
Primi firmatari: Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak.

jc

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training 
of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/

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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