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More than 1100 signatories, including Elon Musk, Steve Wozniac and Tristan Harris of the Center for Humane Technology have signed an open letter

that was posted online Tuesday evening that calls on all AI labs to immediately pause

for at least six months the training of AI systems more powerful than

GPT4.

The letter argues that there is a level of planning and management that is not happening, and

that instead in recent months unnamed AI Labs have been 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 predict or reliably control.

The letters signatories, some of whom are AI experts, say the pause they are asking for

should be public and verifiable and include all key actors.

If said pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium,

the letter says.

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