Tech leaders, including Elon Musk, call for pause on dangerous race to create advanced AI.

Over 1,100 AI experts, including Elon Musk, have signed an open letter calling for a moratorium on the development of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months. The letter, released by the Future of Life Institute, warns that society is not ready for the increasingly advanced systems that labs are racing to deploy. The signatories include foundational figures in artificial intelligence, including Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, and Victoria Krakovna. The letter argues that we need to slow down AI progress and ask ourselves whether we should let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth, automate away all jobs, develop nonhuman minds that might eventually replace us, or risk loss of control of our civilization.