Re: Open letter urging to pause AI

Maybe a w3c AI ethics or AI Safety CG, could usefully support quorum for
more formal, thoughtful discussion about the specificities associated with
the topic.

Fwiw:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KwMdyGDPZ-9NZS8EyCreDKf-Px81w0ADZEokKNHZAJw/edit?usp=drivesdk

Not all AI systems / agents are the same / have the same qualities.

I started on a list... ( As noted in the document linked above )

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11P5X3al6DlFULOPU3w9-eeoDEyLqYmgqmsDm0U2wgsU/edit?usp=drivesdk

Timothy Holborn.

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023, 6:06 am Timothy Holborn, <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> Milton Ponson
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>> Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
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>>
>