{"id":119769,"date":"2023-03-29T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119769"},"modified":"2023-03-29T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T21:49:25","slug":"reuters-elon-musk-and-others-urge-ai-pause-citing-risks-to-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119769","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Elon Musk and others urge AI pause, citing &#8216;risks to society&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI&#8217;s newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Microsoft-backed OpenAI unveiled the fourth iteration of its GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) AI program, which has wowed users by engaging them in human-like conversation, composing songs and summarising lengthy documents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable,&#8221; said the letter issued by the Future of Life Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The non-profit is primarily funded by the Musk Foundation, as well as London-based group Founders Pledge, and Silicon Valley Community Foundation, according to the European Union&#8217;s transparency register.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/musk-experts-urge-pause-training-042927625.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives is calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI&#39;s newly launched GPT-4. <br \/>Their open letter cites potential risks to society and to humanity. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/whnM8yn94A\">https:\/\/t.co\/whnM8yn94A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CBC News (@CBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBCNews\/status\/1641168493960724480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI&#8217;s newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society. Earlier this month,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119769\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,589,168,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119769"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119772,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119769\/revisions\/119772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}