Elon Musk: Artificial intelligence, a danger to humanity

2023-03-30 19:38:04Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Elon Musk: Artificial intelligence, a danger to humanity
Elon Musk

Elon Musk and hundreds of world experts have signed an appeal calling for a six-month pause in artificial intelligence research, citing "huge risks to humanity".

The appeal refers to a more powerful technology than ChatGPT 4, an open AI model launched in mid-March, AFP reports.

In a petition published on the Future of Life website, they call for a moratorium on research until a safety system is put in place, including special regulatory bodies to oversee artificial intelligence systems and techniques that will help distinguish real from artificial intelligence, as well as institutions capable of managing "the dramatic economic and political disruption (especially to democracy) that artificial intelligence will cause".

The petition brings together figures who have already publicly expressed fears about uncontrolled artificial intelligence surpassing human beings, and among them, in addition to Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter and the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, is the co-founder of Apple , Steve Wozniak, a member of the Google Deep Mind artificial intelligence laboratory, the head of Stability AI Emad Mostaque – a competitor of OpenAI, as well as artificial intelligence experts at American universities, Microsoft engineers and others.

"The uncontrolled race of AI laboratories"

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, said he was "a little afraid" of its creation if it would be used for large-scale disinformation or cyber attacks.

"The company needs time to adjust," Altman told ABC News.

In recent months, we've seen AI labs engage in an uncontrolled race to develop and deploy an increasingly powerful digital brain that no one, not even its creators, can understand, predict or control. in any meaningful way, the petition said.

The authors of the petition ask whether we should let machines "flood our information channels with propaganda and lies", whether they should automate all jobs, develop non-human minds, which may one day be more numerous, more intelligent and replace people.

"Should we risk losing control of our civilization", they ask, stating that decisions about this should not be made by leaders of technology firms.


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