Re: Open letter urging to pause AI

i signed the document

fwiw:
"There are less than 100 people in the entire world working on the control
problem.”
source: https://sifted.eu/articles/connor-leahy-ai-alignment/

certainly appears to be discouraged from my pov.   I attended some of the
recent ITU / UN related meetings (WSIS2023 & GDC, alongside some OECD
sessions).

If anyone is interested in the details / works;
- https://groups.google.com/g/peace-infrastructure-project
- http://www.humancentricai.org/

Tim.H.

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 05:46, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <
metadataportals@yahoo.com> wrote:

> This letter speaks for itself.
>
>
> https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-experts-urge-pause-training-ai-systems-that-can-outperform-gpt-4-2023-03-29/
>
>
> I may not want to put it as bluntly as Elon Musk, who cautioned against
> unregulated AI which he called "more dangerous than nukes", but when Nick
> Bostrom, the late Stephen Hawking, and dozens, no hundreds of international
> experts, scientists and industry leaders start ringing the bell, is is time
> to pause and reflect.
>
> Every aspect of daily life, every industry, education systems, academia
> and even our cognitive rights will be impacted.
>
> I would also like to point out that some science fiction authors have done
> a great job on very accurately predicting a dystopian future ruled by
> technology, perhaps the greatest of them all being Philip K. Dick.
>
> But there are dozens of other authors as well and they all give a fairly
> good impression what awaits us if we do not regulate and control the
> further development of AI now.
>
>
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