Can anything slow down this AI juggernaut from American public media?

This is Marketplace Tech, I'm Megan McCarty-Korino.

Last week, more than 1,000 scientists and tech leaders, including yes, Elon Musk, signed

an open letter, calling for a pause in the race to develop more powerful artificial intelligence

models.

The letter channeled a certain dread, I think many are feeling about these fast-moving

technological changes, and became a lightning rod for criticism from both AI boosters

and skeptics.

Here to tell us more about why he signed the letter is Gary Marcus.

He's a professor emeritus of cognitive science at NYU, and a co-author of the book Rebooting

AI, building artificial intelligence we can trust.

We haven't put in the work yet as a society, especially not at an international level, but

even at local levels to really know what to do.

There's no question that we need regulation, and there's no question we don't have any

yet.

We're about to enter like an information apocalypse almost, like it is so easy now to

make up fake videos about anything, or at least fake stills that are pretty convincing.

We have to worry about bad actors taking advantage of these tools to make industrial-grade

wholesale-grade misinformation that looks really good, like what's the consequence for

that?

Who's liable for that?

There's just not a lot of regulation or thought yet about how to do it, and so the idea

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