More than 1,000 techs and AI luminaries recently signed a petition for the computing industry to take a six-month moratorium on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. The petition, organized by the nonprofit Future of Life Institute, calls for a near-immediate public and verifiable cessation by all key developers, or for governments to step in and institute a moratorium. The letter is not an attempt to halt all AI development in general, but rather to step back from a dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities. During the time out, AI labs and independent experts should jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development.
