MONTREAL, March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Hundreds of key players in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and technology, including Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute, today co-signed an open letter initiated by the Future of Life Institute to ask AI labs to immediately halt training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months. In response to the release, media representatives are invited to participate in a question and answer session.
In the letter, the signatories are clear: AI systems with intelligence that can rival that of humans can pose serious threats to society and humanity. The six-month pause should thus be used to develop and implement a set of protocols to make these powerful AI systems more accurate, transparent, and trustworthy.
The full open letter is available here.
Here are some of the main co-signatories:
- Yuval Noah Harari, Author and Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Stuart Russell, Berkeley, Professor of Computer Science, director of the Center for Intelligent Systems, and co-author of the standard textbook “Artificial Intelligence: a Modern Approach”
- Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, Tesla & Twitter
- Steve Wozniak, Co-founder, Apple
- Evan Sharp, Co-Founder, Pinterest
- Rachel Bronson, President, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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WHAT |
Q&A session |
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WHEN |
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (EDT) |
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WHO |
● Max Tegmark, professor of physics at MIT’s NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) and President of the Future of Life Institute ● Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute and professor at Université de Montréal ● Emilia Javorsky, Director of Multistakeholder Engagements at the Future of Life Institute |
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The Q&A session will be broadcast online here. |
SOURCE Mila – Quebec AI Institute
