Is the letter calling for a pause on AI an impossible ask?

The open letter calls for a moratorium of at least six months on development of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. But the genie’s already out of the bottle.

An open letter signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Andrew Yang, and many others asks that companies like OpenAI (which Musk cofounded) stop releasing new AI models until the risks can be better understood and better managed. But the AI genie’s already well out of the bottle and expanding—and there may be no pausing that.

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