Tech Experts – And Elon Musk – Call For A ‘Pause’ In AI Training

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A group of AI experts and tech executives including Elon Musk have signed an open letter calling for a pause in the development of AI systems.

Currently with more than 1,000 signatories, the letter has been published by the Future of Life Institute, a non-profit focused on ‘steering transformative technology towards benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks’.

Signatories include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Twitter CEO Elon Musk, as well as researchers from Alphabet-owned DeepMind and experts in machine learning, such as Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell.

The letter calls specifically for a pause of at least six months in the training of AI systems more powerful than Open AI’s GPT-4, with governments prepared to step in and enforce a ban.

“AI labs and independent experts should use this pause to jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development that are rigorously audited and overseen by independent outside experts,” the letter reads.

“These protocols should ensure that systems adhering to them are safe beyond a reasonable doubt. This does not mean a pause on AI development in general, merely a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities.”

The experts also call for stronger governance systems, which should, as a minimum, include new regulatory authorities dedicated to the oversight and tracking of AI; provenance and watermarking systems to help distinguish real from synthetic and to track model leaks, and a robust auditing and certification ecosystem.

Suppliers should face liability for AI-caused harm, and there should be robust public funding for technical AI safety research. Finally, they say, well-resourced institutions should be set up to cope with the ‘dramatic’ economic and political disruptions that AI is likely to cause.

AI regulation is currently a very mixed bag. In the US, earlier this month, the Chamber of Commerce called for more regulation to prevent AI hindering economic growth or becoming a national security risk.

“Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used by all important actors in every aspect of our economy and society, both domestically and globally,” the report reads.

“Yet in many ways, in terms of technology, economic impact, and AI policy development, we are in the initial stages of a new age.”

In the UK, meanwhile, the government today ruled out the creation of a new body dedicated to AI governance. Instead, it is asking existing regulators in various fields, such as the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Competition and Markets Authority, to develop their own sector-specific approaches.

However, in the EU, plans are progressing for a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, as well as tightening regulation of data quality, transparency, human oversight and accountability.

While the open letter is highly unlikely to achieve its objectives, it marks a widespread unease about AI technologies, and increases pressure for more regulation.

“Society has hit pause on other technologies with potentially catastrophic effects on society,” the authors write. “We can do so here.”

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