Below is the open letter that is putting AI Ethics front and center. That is a very good thing. But at this point, I do not have enough information to endorse and sign this open letter, which is really a Petition.
I am concerned that this action is premature, that ChaGPT-4 is still a child, and needs more development for it to be useful. IMO it is too early to stop LLMs. I could be wrong, but for now prefer to err on the side of innovation. Read it and see what you think.

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research[1] and acknowledged by top AI labs.[2] As stated in the widely-endorsed Asilomar AI Principles, Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources. Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not happening, even though recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control.
Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,[3] and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable. This confidence must be well justified and increase with the magnitude of a system’s potential effects. OpenAI’s recent statement regarding artificial general intelligence, states that “At some point, it may be important to get independent review before starting to train future systems, and for the most advanced efforts to agree to limit the rate of growth of compute used for creating new models.” We agree. That point is now.
Therefore, we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.
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. These protocols should ensure that systems adhering to them are safe beyond a reasonable doubt.[4] 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.
AI research and development should be refocused on making today’s powerful, state-of-the-art systems more accurate, safe, interpretable, transparent, robust, aligned, trustworthy, and loyal.
In parallel, AI developers must work with policymakers to dramatically accelerate development of robust AI governance systems. These should at a minimum include: new and capable regulatory authorities dedicated to AI; oversight and tracking of highly capable AI systems and large pools of computational capability; provenance and watermarking systems to help distinguish real from synthetic and to track model leaks; a robust auditing and certification ecosystem; liability for AI-caused harm; robust public funding for technical AI safety research; and well-resourced institutions for coping with the dramatic economic and political disruptions (especially to democracy) that AI will cause.
Humanity can enjoy a flourishing future with AI. Having succeeded in creating powerful AI systems, we can now enjoy an “AI summer” in which we reap the rewards, engineer these systems for the clear benefit of all, and give society a chance to adapt. Society has hit pause on other technologies with potentially catastrophic effects on society.[5] We can do so here. Let’s enjoy a long AI summer, not rush unprepared into a fall.
Signatories
EDITORS NOTES: Not a complete list. (These folks sure do love their titles and awards. Color me impressed.)
Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director at Mila, Turing Prize winner and professor at University of Montreal
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
Yuval Noah Harari, Author and Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Andrew Yang, Forward Party, Co-Chair, Presidential Candidate 2020, NYT Bestselling Author, Presidential Ambassador of Global Entrepreneurship
Connor Leahy, CEO, Conjecture
Jaan Tallinn, Co-Founder of Skype, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Future of Life Institute
Evan Sharp, Co-Founder, Pinterest
Chris Larsen, Co-Founder, Ripple
Emad Mostaque, CEO, Stability AI
Valerie Pisano, President & CEO, MILA
John J Hopfield, Princeton University, Professor Emeritus, inventor of associative neural networks
Rachel Bronson, President, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Max Tegmark, MIT Center for Artificial Intelligence & Fundamental Interactions, Professor of Physics, president of Future of Life Institute
Anthony Aguirre, University of California, Santa Cruz, Executive Director of Future of Life Institute, Professor of Physics
Victoria Krakovna, DeepMind, Research Scientist, co-founder of Future of Life Institute
Emilia Javorsky, Physician-Scientist & Director, Future of Life Institute
Sean O’Heigeartaigh, Executive Director, Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Tristan Harris, Executive Director, Center for Humane Technology
Marc Rotenberg, Center for AI and Digital Policy, President
Nico Miailhe, The Future Society (TFS), Founder and PresidentZachary Kenton, DeepMind, Senior Research Scientist
Ramana Kumar, DeepMind, Research Scientist
Gary Marcus, New York University, AI researcher, Professor Emeritus
Steve Omohundro, Beneficial AI Research, CEO
Danielle Allen, Harvard University, Professor and Director, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics
Luis Moniz Pereira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, Professor Emeritus, Doctor Honoris Causa T.U. Dresden, Fellow of EurAI, Fellow AAIA
Carles Sierra, Director Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA-CSIC; President of the European Association of AI, EurAI., Research Professor of the CSIC, EurAI Fellow
Ramon Lopez De Mantaras, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Research Professor, Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Award of the AAAI, EurAI Fellow, National Research Prize in Mathematics of the Spanish Government
Mark Nitzberg, Center for Human-Compatible AI, UC Berkeley, Executive Directer
Gianluca Bontempi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Full Professor in Machine Learning, Cohead of the ULB Machine Learning Group
Daniel Schwarz, Metaculus, CTO, Metaculus
Nicholas Saparoff, Software Architect, Founder of ByteSphere Technologies and Phenome.AI
Alessandro Perilli, Synthetic Work, AI Researcher
Matt Mahoney, Hutter Prize Committee, Retired data scientist, Developed PAQ and ZPAQ, large text benchmark to evaluate language models using compression
Régis Sabbadin, Inrae-Université de Toulouse, France, Research Director in AI
Peter Stone, The University of Texas at Austin, Associate Chair of Computer Science, Director of Robotics, Chair of the 100 Year Study on AI, Professor of Computer Science, IJCAI Computer and Thought Award; Fellow of AAAI, ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.
Alessandro Saffiotti, Orebro University, Sweden, Professor, Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence
Louis Rosenberg, Unanimous AI, CEO & Chief Scientist
Jason Tamara Widjaja, Director of Artificial Intelligence, Certified AI Ethics & Governance (Expert)
Niki Iliadis, The Future Society, Director on AI and the Rule of Law
Dr. Jeroen Franse, ABN Amro Bank, Advisor MLOps and ML governance
Colin De La Higuera, Nantes Université. France, Unesco Chair on Open Educational Resoiurces and Artificial Intelligence
Vincent Conitzer, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Oxford, Professor of Computer Science, Director of Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab, Head of Technical AI Engagement at the Institute for Ethics in AI, Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, Computers and Thought Award, Social Choice and Welfare Prize, Guggenheim Fellow, Sloan Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAI Fellow, ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award
Elionai Moura Cordeiro, UFRN | BioME | Plus3D.app, CEO – AI Researcher, RSG Brazil Member | BioME fellow researcher
Peter Warren, Director, Author ‘AI on Trial’ a discussion on the need for AI regulation published by Bloomsbury
Takafumi Matsumaru, Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems, Waseda University, Japan, Professor (Robotics and Mechatronics), IEEE senior member
Jaromír Janisch, CTU in Prague, PhD. student in AI
Emma Bluemke, Centre for the Governance of AI, PhD Engineering, University of Oxford
Mario Gibney, AI Governance & Safety Canada, Director of Partnerships
Louise Doherty, Executive Coach to AI ethics/safety and for-good leaders
Evan R. Murphy, AI Safety Researcher, Independent; Board Member, AIGS
CanadaJulien Billot, Scale AI, CEO
Jeff Orkin, Central Casting AI, CEO, PhD from MIT. Awards for best AI in the video game industry for my work on FEAR and No One Lives Forever 2Anish Upadhayay, Co-founder of the AI Safety Initiative at Georgia Tech
Subhabrata Majumdar, AI Risk and Vulnerability Alliance, Founder and PresidentYuxi Li, Attain.ai, Founder
Francesc Giralt, University Rovira i Virgili, Professor Emeritus, Distinguished with the Narcís Monturiol Medal, Catalonia
Joseph Sifakis, Verimag, Universite Grenoble Alpes, CNRS Research Director Emeritus, Turing Award 2007
Wyatt Tessari L’Allié, AIGS Canada, Founder & Executive DirectorJ
ohn Wettlaufer, Yale University & Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Professor, Nobel Committee for Physics; Guggenheim Fellow; Fellow, American Geophysical Union; Fellow, American Physical Society
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT, Professor of Physics, Wolf Prize in Physics, US National Academy of Sciences
Gillian Hadfield, University of Toronto, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, Professor and Director
Craig Peters, Getty Images, CEO
Christof Koch, MindScope Program, Allen Institute, Seattle, Chief Scientist
Mateo Valero Cortes, Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Fellow of Royal Spanish Academy of Engineering
Richard Guy Compton, Oxford University, Professor of Chemistry
Robert Brandenberger, McGill University, Professor of Physics
Alfonso Ngan, Hong Kong University, Chair in Materials Science and Engineering
Mark Brakel, Director of Policy, Future of Life Institute
J.M.Don MacElroy, University College Dublin, Emeritus Chair of Chemical Engineering
Lawrence M. Krauss, President, The Origins Project Foundation
Michael Wellman, University of Michigan, Professor and Chair of Computer Science & Engineering
Berndt Mueller, Duke University, J.B. Duke Professor of Physics
Alan Mackworth, University of British Columbia, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Rolf Harald Baayen, University of Tuebingen, ProfessorGrady Booch, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, IEEE Computing Pioneer, IBM FellowTor Nordam, NTNU, Adjunct associate professor of physics,
Joshua David Greene, Harvard University, Professor,
Arturo Giraldez, University of the Pacific, Professor
Scott Niekum, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Associate Professor
Lars Kotthoff, University of Wyoming, Assistant Professor, Senior Member, AAAI and ACM
Steve Petersen, Niagara University, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Yves Deville, UCLouvain, Professor of Computer Science
Christoph Weniger, University of Amsterdam, Associate Professor for Theoretical Physics,
Luc Steels, University of Brussels (VUB) Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, emeritus professor and founding director, EURAI Distinguished Service Award, Chair for Natural Science of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium
Roman Yampolskiy, Professor
Alyssa M Vance, Blue Rose Research, Senior Data Scientist
Jonathan Moreno, University of Pennsylvania, David and Lyn Silfen University Professor, Member, National Academy of Medicine
Andrew Barto, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Professor emeritus, Fellow AAAS, Fellow IEEE
Peter B. Reiner, University of British Columbia, Professor of Neuroethics
Jorel, University of Caen, Assitant professor,
Paul Rosenbloom, University of Southern California, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and the Cognitive Science Society
Michael Gillings, Macquarie University, Professor of Molecular Evolution,
Grigorios Tsoumakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Associate Professor
Benjamin Kuipers, University of Michigan, Professor of Computer Science, Fellow, AAAI, IEEE, AAAS
Chi-yuen Wang, UC Berkeley, Professor Emeritus,
Johann Rohwer, Stellenbosch University, Professor of Systems Biology
Geoffrey Odlum, Odlum Global Strategies , President , Retired U.S. Diplomat
Dana S. Nau, University of Maryland, Professor, Computer Science Dept and Institute for Systems Research, AAAI Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow
Andrew Francis, Western Sydney University, Professor of Mathematics
Vassilis P. Plagianakos, University of Thessaly, Greece, Professor of Computational Intelligence, Dean of the School of Science, University of Thessaly, Greece
Stefan Sint, Trinity College Dublin, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics
Hector Geffner, RWTH Aachen University, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Fellow AAAI, EurAI
B. Thomas Soifer, California Institute of Technology, Harold Brown Professor of Physics, Emeritus, NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
Marcus Frei, NEXT. robotics GmbH & Co. KG, CEO, Member European DIGITAL SME Alliance FG AI, Advisory Board http://ciscproject.eu
Brendan McCane, University of Otago, Professor
Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan, Professor, Fellow of IEEE and ACM, winner of the Hoam Engineering Prize
Miguel Gregorkiewitz, University Siena, Italy, Professor
Václav Nevrlý, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Safety Engineering, Assistant Professor
Alan Frank Thomas Winfield, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UWE Bristol, UK, Professor of Robot Ethics
LuIs Caires, NOVA University Lisbon, Professor of Computer Science and Head of NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics
Vincent Corruble, Sorbonne University, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Sunyoung Yang, The University of Arizona, Assistant Professor
The Anh han, Teesside University , Professor of Computer Science, Lead of Centre for Digital Innovation
Yngve Sundblad, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Professor emeritus
Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, AI lab Research Director, AAAI Fellow; EurAI Fellow; IEEE Fellow; IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award; Marie Curie Excellence Award
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Professor
Courtney M. Peterson, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Associate Professor
Divya Siddarth, Collective Intelligence Project, Co-director
Timothy John O’Donnell, McGill University/Mila, Professor, Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Hans Martin Seip, University of Oslo, Professor Emeritus, Member of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and of The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
Kim Mens, Professor of Computer Science, UCLouvain
Thomas Wallis, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, Professor
Damian Lyons, Fordham University, Professor, SM IEEE
Olle Häggström, Chalmers University of Technology, Professor of mathematical statistics, Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Science
Robert Kowalski, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Fellow, IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
Jakob Foerster, University of Oxford, Associate Professor, Awarded ERC Starter Grant in 2023
Michael Symonds, The University of Nottingam, Emeritus Professor
Andrew Robinson, The University of Melbourne, Professor
Tony J. Prescott, University of Sheffield, Professor of Cognitive Robotics
Robert Brooks, UNSW Sydney, Scientia Professor
Yoshihiko Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Senior Researcher / Professor Emeritus
Zbigniew H. Stachurski, Australian National University, A/Prof. – retired
David Scott Krueger, University of Cambridge, Assistant Professor
Raul Monroy, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Professor
Peter Vamplew, Federation University Australia, Professor of Information Technology
Jean-Claude Latombe, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Professor, Emeritus
Frank van den Bosch, Yale University, Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics
Richard Dazeley, Deakin University, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
M V N Murthy, Former Professor at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India, None, Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences
Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, Professor of Computer Science, Director Michigan AI Lab, PECASE recipient, AAAI Fellow, ACM Fellow
Qiaobing Xu, Tufts University, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Fellow of AIMBE
Raymund Sison, De La Salle University, Professor and University Fellow, Metrobank Foundation Outstanding Teacher and NAST Outstanding Young Scientist
Jonathan Cefalu, Preamble, Inc., Chairman, Inventor of Prompt Injection; Forbes 30 Under 30 for inventing Snapchat Spectacles AR glasses
George Helou, California Institute of Technology, Executive Director of IPAC at Caltech, Fellow, American Astronomical Society; NASA Distringuished Public Service Medal; Gruber Cosmology Prize (2018, shared)
JACOB TSIMERMAN, University of Toronto, Professor of Mathematics, New horizons 2021 prize winner
Hema A Murthy, Indian Institute of Technology Madras India, Professor, Fellow,Indian National Academy of Engineering; Fellow, Internattional Speech Communication Association
Huw Price, University of Cambridge, Emeritus Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy, FBA, FAHA
Ulises Cortés, Univeristat Politècnica de Catalunya, Professor, Fellow Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial. Mexican of the year 2018
Robert Babuska, Delft University of Technology, Professor
Alexander Schütz, University of Marburg, Professor of Experimental Psychology
Joan Manuel del Pozo Alvarez, Spain, Prof. of Philisiphy, Exminister of Education and Universities
Albert Sabater, University of Girona, Director of the Catalan Observatory for Ethis in Artificial Intelligence
Gert Jervan, Tallinn University of Technology, Professor of Dependable Computer Systems, Dean of School of Information Technologies
Aza Raskin, Center for Humane Technology / Earth Species Project, Cofounder, National Geographic Explorer, WEF Global AI Council
Gregory Provan, University College Cork, Professor, Rhodes Scholar
Jordi Miralda-Escude, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, ICREA, ICREA research professor
Frits Vaandrager, Radboud University, Head of the Department of Software Science
Nicholas Taylor, Heriot-Watt University, Professor of Computer Science, Chartered Engineer, Chartered IT Professional, Chartered Mathematician, Fellow British Computer Society, Fellow Higher Education Academy, Member Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
Eduard Savador-Solé, University of Barcelona, Full Proessor
Tom Lenaerts, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Professor
Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen University, Professor, Fellow, European Association for Artificial Intelligence
Simeon Campos, SaferAI, Founder
Stuart S. Blume, Unversity of Amsterdam, Emeritus Professor of Science & Technology Studies
Manel Sanromà, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona. Catalonia, Professor of Applied Mathematics. Founder of CIVICAi, Trustee Emeritus, Internet Society
Paolo Zuccon, Trento University, Italy, Associate Professor
Georgios Gounalakis, Philipps-University Marburg, Professor of Law
João Emilio Almeida, LIACC / CITECA / ISTEC Porto, Professor / Researcher, Senior and Specialist member of Portuguese Engineers Order
Jan Pieter van der Schaar, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Associate Professor
Oren Schuldiner, Weizmann Institute of Science, Professor
Michel Schellekens, University College Cork, Professor, Fulbright Award
Martin Welk, UMIT TIROL – Private University for Health Sciences and Health Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria, Professor
Nayat Sanchez-Pi, Inria Chile, CEO, CEO Inria Chile
Simon Friederich, University of Groningen, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science
John S. Edwards, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, Professor of Knowledge Management
Joachim Weickert, Saarland University, Germany, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Michael Osborne, University of Oxford, Professor of Machine Learning
Teresa Riera Madurell, UIB/BSC, Professor, Pormer MEP
Cristina Urdiales, University of Malaga, Professor Robotics, Phd in Robotics, PhD in AI
Yuri Gurevich, University of Michigan, Professor, Fellow, AAAS, and ACM
Raja Chatila, Sorbonne University, Paris, Professor Emeritus AI, Robotics and Technology Ethics, Fellow, IEEE
Daniel Langkilde, Kognic, CEO, Founder & CEO, Kognic
Goetz Neuneck, Co-chairman Federation of German Scientists, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Hamburg
Gregory Randall, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, Profesor
Christopher F. Mckee, University of California at Berkeley, Professor of Physics and of Astronomy, Emeritus Member, National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Fellow, American Physical Society, and American Astronomical Society
Gaia Dempsey, Metaculus, CEO, Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow
Yannis Tsividis, Columbia University, Edwin Armstrong Professor of Electrical Engineering, Member, US National Academy of Engineering
Pattie Maes, MIT, Professor, Global leader for tomorrow, World Economic Forum
Joao Leite, NOVA University Lisbon, Professor of Computer Science, Head of the Department of Computer Science
Jon Solomon, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Professor
Anne Jeannin-Girardon, University of Strasbourg, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Joe Redston, Raise, Founder
Brian Mingus, datafree.ai, Chief Executive Officer, Solomonoff Student Prize
Pierre Boulet, University of Lille, Professeur of Computer Science, VP for digital infrastructures of the University of Lille
Daniel Bauer, Columbia University, Lecturer in Natural Language Processing
Jack Stilgoe, University College London, Professor of Science and Technology Policy
Jens Niemeyer, University of Goettingen, Professor of Physics
Joshua Reeves, Oregon State University, Associate Professor
Manuel Sanchez Miranda, Geneva Graduate Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow
Steve Jones, University of Illinois Chicago, UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication, Fellow, International Communication Association
Dae-Shik Kim, KAIST, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Alejandro Bernardin, Fundacion Ciencia & Vida, Postdoctoral Researcher,
Norman K Swazo, North South University, Professor of Philosophy; Director, Office of Research
Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS – University Clermont Auvergne – CNRS, Professor
Rufo Guerreschi, Trustless Computing Association, Executive Director, Founder of the Trustless Computing Association
Joseph S. Webster, Professor of Mathematics, Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction (Mathematics Education)
Marcel Lüthi, University of Basel, Lecturer in Computer Science
Soumya Ray, Case Western Reserve University, Associate Professor
Maja Van Der Velden, University of Oslo, Professor
Juan Pablo Bermúdez, Imperial College London, Research Associate, PhD in Philosophy / AI Ethics
Stephen Majercik, Bowdoin College, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Joaquin Arango, Complutense Univerisity Madrid, Professor
George Verghese, MIT, Warren Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
Håvard Tveit Ihle, University of Oslo, Postdoc in Cosmology
Vitezslav Kala, Charles University, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Gabriele Ferretti, Chalmers University of Technology, Professor of Theoretical Physics
Michael Mccabe, CEO
Dr. Alexandra Reed Lajoux, Capital Expert Services, LLC, Founding Principal, Board of Fellows, Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism; CKO Emeritus, NACD
Barry Bentley, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Deputy Director, EUREKA Robotics Centre
Jeroen De Dauw, CEO
Geoff Fitch, Pacific Integral, Co-Founder
Pascal Thomet, Research consultant / Cofounder of Activisu
Einar H. Gudmundsson, Univerity of Iceland, Professor Emeritus
Fredrik Allenmark, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Postdoctoral Researcher
Richard J Self, University of Derby, Senior Lecturer in Governance of Advanced and Emerging Technologies
Andrew Philippides, University of Sussex, Professor of Biorobotics
Cédric Pradalier, Georgiatech Europe, Associate professor
Benjamin Rosman, University of the Witswatersrand, Professor of Computer Science
Chad Goldthwaite, American Inventions, CEO, Founder, Passionate, Perpetual Autodidact
Hans Hyttel, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Associate Professor
Peter Jaffé, Princeton University, Willkiam L. Knapp, Professo of Civil Engineering, Fellow, American Geophysical Union
Juan-Antonio Fernández-Madrigal, University of Málaga (Spain), Professor of Robotics, Real-Time Systems and Computer Control; researcher in Cognitive Robotics.
Ivan Rizzo Guilherme, UNESP, Associate Professor
Dragan Janković, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, Assistant Professor
Jeroen Van Den Hoven, Delft University of Technology, Professor of Ethics and Technology, Founding Editor in Chief Ethics and Information Technology (Springer Nature)
Justin Good, The Sanctuary, Central CT State University, Lecturer in Ethics
Ernesto Jorge Fernandes Costa, University of Coimbra, Full Professor
Libero Maesano, Simple Engineering, CEO
Zara Yaqoob, Founder
Arthur Breitman, Co-founder of Tezos
Florian Fiebig, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral Researcher
Kamen Brestnichki, INSAIT, Researcher, MSc Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at UCL
Atılım Güneş Baydin, University of Oxford, Lecturer in Machine Learning
Wolfgang Banzhaf, Michigan State University, USA, John R. Koza Chair in Genetic Programming, Endowed Chair Professor
Chuck Anderson, Colorado State University, Professor
John E Pellizzom, Integrated ProAction Corp, President
Yves Moreau, University of Leuven, Full professor, Fellow International Society of Computational Biology
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, Professor emeritus, Member U.S. National Academy of Engineering
Christian Walter Peter Omlin, University of Agder, Professor
Stefan Woltran, TU Wien, University Professor, EurAI Fellow
Phil D Hall, Founder, FRSA
Luca Simoncini, University of Pisa, Professor (Retired)
Sarwech Shar, Founder/Developer
Marek Oziewicz, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Professor, Director, Center for Climate Literacy
Tias Guns, KU Leuven, Prof. in AI, ERC Consolidator grantee
Enyo Markovski, CEO
Barry Devlin, 9sight Consulting, Founder
Yves Moreau, University of Leuven, Full professor, Fellow International Society of Computational Biology
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, Professor emeritus, Member U.S. National Academy of Engineering
Christian Walter Peter Omlin, University of Agder, Professor
Stefan Woltran, TU Wien, University Professor, EurAI Fellow
Ernest Davis, New York University, Professor of Computer Science
Rick Vitale, University of Connecticut, Professor Emeritus
Hoshin Gupta, University of Arizona, Regents Professor, Fellow of American Geophysical Union
Alípio Mário Guedes Jorge, University of Porto, Professor
Faisal Riaz, Mirpur University of Science and Technology, Professor of Computing, ICT P@SHA Award 2022
James Crutchfield, University of California, Davis, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Distinguished Professor of Physics
Ido Hartogsohn, Bar Ilan University, Professor for Science, Technology, and Society
Pierre Leprince, Natagora, President
Justin Scholz, CEO/Cofounder of Phelas
Jill Nephew, Inqwire, PBC and AI researcher since 1999, CEO/Founder, NSF Fellow
David Burman, Brahe Foundation, Director
Przemyslaw Nowak, Lodz University of Technology, Senior Lecturer
Ian Panchevre, http://www.amplified.software, Founder, Alumnus, Intuit Futures; MBA, Stanford GSB; Political Theory, Yale
Christopher Markou, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, Lecturer, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Prasad Tadepalli, Oregon State University, Professor of Computer Science
Brian Atkins, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Co-Founder
Victoria Ustimenko, PRETO BUSINESS PR Agency, CEO/Founder, Global Head of Markets at TAFFD
Duncan G. Steel, University of Michigan, Professor, EECS and Physics, Fellow, APS, OSA, IEEE
Alexandre Rispal, CEO AR Consulting / Author / Speaker, Distinguished Professor QAHE / AUBSS
David Lowe, University of British Columbia, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Vít Janiš, Mendel University in Brno, Assistant professor
Tadek Twardowski, CEO SpatioTempoWeb / Fullstack dev,
Arvind Tiwary, SangEnnovate, Founder
Michael Pollock, Daraja (Third Culture Care), Educator/Consultant/Coach and Founding Director, Author, Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds 3rd ed ; Masters in Education, Loyola University; Founding Head of School, Cambridge School, Baltimore; Founder Odyssey ISC student development, Tianjin China; Founder Daraja
Santiago González Izard, CEO of ARSOFT, PhD in Computer Engineering, CEO and CTO of ARSOFT
Alex Pagnoni, CTO Mastermind, Founder
Simon Mueller, The Future Society (TFS), Co-Founder, The Future Society, Harvard Kennedy School (MPA ’15)
Joao Fabiano, Department of Philosophy, University of Sao Paulo, Postdoctoral Fellow
James Koppel, Ph. D., Mirdin, Founder, Ph. D. in Computer Science at MIT with research profiled in New York Times. Thiel Fellow.
Deger Turan, AI Objectives Institute, President
Ken D Olum, Tufts University, Research professor
Gordon N. Fleming, Penn State University, Prof. Emeritus of Physics (retired)
Catherine Régis, University of Montreal, Professor of law, Canada Research Chair
Lorena Etcheverry, Instituto de Computación, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, Associate Professor
Duncan G. Steel, University of Michigan, Professor, EECS and Physics, Fellow, APS, OSA, IEEE
Dirk Lindebaum, Grenoble Ecole de Management, Professor in Management
J. Craig Wheeler, The University of Texas at Austin, Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, Inaugural Fellow of the American Astronomical Society, Fellow of the American Physical Society, President of the American Astronomical Society 2006-2008, author of “Wild Ride Ahead: The Technological Future of Humanity”, in preparation.
Pierre-Etienne Jacques, Université de Sherbrooke, Professor
Ramon F. Brena, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Emeritus professor, Member, Academia Mexicana de Ciencias
Prabhu Guptara, Salt Desert Media Group Ltd, U. K., Publisher, Distinguished Professor of Global Business, Management and Public Policy (retired), William Carey University, India
Robert Schuham, RJ Schuham Resiliency, Founder/CEO
Jackie Rotman, Center for Intimacy Justice, Founder & CEO
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Northeastern University, Director of Research, EAI, ACM & IEEE Fellow, National Awards in Chile and Spain
Sh Kwee, MD, MSc, ex-researcher
Hendrik Scheider, private sector, VP Professional Services, Co-creator of an anonymous, AI-powered loyalty system for retail
Frank Hutter, University of Freiburg, Professor of Computer Science, Fellow of EurAI and ELLIS; 3x ERC Grant holder
Mattias Marklund, University of Gothenburg, Professor of Theoretical Physics
Ramon Carbó-Dorca Carré, University of Girona, Emeritus Professor, Naecís Monturiol Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya
Djamila Amimer, Mind Senses Global ltd, CEO & Founder, Phd
Nicholas Vincent, Co-founder, Responsible AI Licenses; Postdoc, UC Davis + University of Washington; Research fellow, Metagov, Researcher, Machine Learning and Human-computer Interaction
Matthias Samwald, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Medical University of Vienna, Associate Professor
Steven Pearce, Simon Fraser University, Lecturer
James W. Phillips, UCL, Former Special Adviser to the U.K. Prime Minister for Science and Technology
Alan Smithson, Co-Founder, Creator of creator tools, and considered by some to be an expert in XR and Metaverse.
George Godula, Web2Asia, Chairman, Startup investor, previous FLI donor
Henry Elkus, Founder & CEO: Helena
Logan Sullivan, Causative Labs, CEO
Nate Soares, MIRI, Executive Director
Paul Luton, Labour Party member, Retired, None
Kari Saarenvirta, Daisy Intelligence Corporation, Founder, Chief Scientist and CEO, Inventor with 4 patents and in Fastest Growing Companies in Canada for last 3 years.
Mike Fleetham, Thinking Classroom, CEO
Huub Heijnen, Venture Partner at Lionheart Ventures, Co-Founder & CTO of Causative Labs
Roberto D Merlin, University of Michigan, Professor of Physics, APS and Optica Fellow, Guggenhein Fellow, Simons Fellow. Isakson Prize, American Physical Society, Lippincott Award, Optical Society
Sen. Timothy Wirth, Retired Senator; Board Member, American Academy of Science; PhD Stanford
Michael Mcguffin, ETS, Montreal, Full Professor
Brian Harvey, University of California, Berkeley, Computer Science Division, Teaching Professor Emeritus
Patrick Girard, University of Auckland, Philosopher, Senior lecturer
Benjamin Haldeman, LifeShip, CEO
Markus Krötzsch, TU Dresden, Professor, Director of the DAAD Zuse School of Excellence in AI “SECAI”
Silja Voeneky, University of Freiburg, Germany, Professor International Law and Ethics of Law, co-ed The Cambridge Handbook of Responsible AI, Fellow Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School 2015/16
Stavros Tripakis, Northeastern University, Associate Professor, Computer Science
Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem, University of Pretoria and South African Centre for AI Research, Professor and AI Ethics Lead, Chair of ad hoc expert group that drafted the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI
Martin Cederwall, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, Professor in theoretical physics
Luc De Raedt, KU Leuven, Professor & Director of Institute for AI, Wallenberg Guest Professor Örebro University, AAAI and EurAI Fellow
Josif Grabocka, University of Freiburg, Professor of Representation Learning (W1)
Elizabeth Black, King’s College London, Reader in Artificial Intelligence, Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI
Rikard Enberg, Uppsala University, Associate Professor of Physics
Petr Baudis, Rossum, CTO/Cofounder
John Mack, Life Calling, Founder
Fabrice Popineau, CentraleSupélec/Université Paris-Saclay, Professor
Arthur Schloss, Venture Capital, CEO, MIT Fellow
Gaétan Marceau Caron, Mila – Quebec AI Institute, Director, Applied Research Team
Kenneth Holstein, Carnegie Mellon University, Assistant Professor
Thomas Weibull, Chalmers University of Technology, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, retired
Sauvik Das, Carnegie Mellon University, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Assistant Professor
Erik Waltersson, Europaskolan Strängnäs, Lecturer, PhD in Physics, Ingvar Lindqvist Price in Physics Teaching
Jorge Vallejo, Civil, Control Engineer, AMFEI recognition for Carrer generation excelence.
Ben Provan, OpenDoor Coliving, CEO
Peter Asaro, The New School, Associate Professor and Director of Media Studies
Kerem Alper, Neol, Cofounder / CEO
Helena Matute, Deusto University, Spain, Professor of Psychology
James Maclaurin, University of Otago, Professor of Philosophy, Co-director Centre for AI and Public Policy
Benjamin Prud’Homme, Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Executive Director, AI for Humanity
Jose H. Orallo, Technical University of Valencia, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Professor, EurAI Fellow
Michael Lai, Tinycare, Founder / CEO,
Thomas Laudal, University of Stavanger Business School, Associate Professor
Peter Christen, Australian National University, Professor
Pascal Lavallee, Pascal Lavallee / IT Consultant
Debra A. Fischer, Yale University, Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy, Fellow: National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Astronomical Society
Robert P.W. Duin, Delft University of Technology, retired professor
Martin Rauchbauer, Tech Diplomacy Network, Founder, Former Austrian Tech Ambassador
Seth Lazar, Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory Lab, Australian National University, Professor of Philosophy, 2023 Tanner Lecturer on AI and Human Values (Stanford), Australian Research Council Future Fellow.
Lara Jeremko, Beyond Ventures, Founder & CEO
Michael Norcia, Pyka, CEO
Alistair Knott, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Professor in Artificial Intelligence, Member of Global Partnership on AI’s ‘Responsible AI’ working group; Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s ‘Transparency’ working group; co-founder of New Zealand’ Centre for AI and Public Policy
Cristian S. Calude, University of Auckland, Chair Professor, Member Academia Europaea
Daniel Suarez, Author, New York Times bestselling author
Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Eindhoven University of Technology, Assistant Professor
Jocelyn Maclure, McGill University, Professor of Philosophy, Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology
Jon Zieger, Responsible Innovation Labs, Co-Founder and Executive Director
Kevin Baragona, DeepAI, CEO
Michael King, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Head of Department, Senior Lecturer
Denyson Messias, Incognia, Co-Founder
Yaxiong Zhao, Tricorder Observability, CEO, PhD
Franz Giuseppe F. Cortez, University of Santo Tomas (Manila, Philippines), Professor, professor of Philosophy, University of Santo Tomas, member of the National Research Council of the Philippines
Terrence Mernagh, The Australian National University, Honarary Associate Professor
Konrad Seifert, Simon Institute for Longterm Governance, COO
Krishna Gade, Fiddler AI, Founder, CEO, Developed explainable AI at Facebook
Jon Kabat-Zinn, UMass Medical School, Professor of Medicine emeritus
Hao Su, UC San Diego, Assistant Professor
Padhraic Smyth, University of California, Irvine, Professor, Fellow, AAAI; Fellow, ACM; Fellow AAAS
Haichen Shen, Scroll, Co-founder
Priyamvada Natarajan, Department of Astronomy, Yale University, Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy & Chair, Fellow, American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Michael Andregg, Fathom Radiant, Founder
Gordon Kane, University of Michigan, Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Fellow, American Physical Society; Awarded Lilienfeld Prize of American Physical Society; Co-awarded Sukurai Prize of American Physical Society; Fellow of American Association of Science; Fellow of British Physical Society
Mark Daley, The University of Western Ontario, Chief Digital Information Officer & Professor
Noam Shazeer, Founder of Character.ai, CEO, Major contributor to Google’s LaMDA
Matthew Xiao Wang, Me plus robot, Founder an ceo, None
Paolo A. Bolaños, Department of Philosophy, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, Professor of Philosophy
Yang Gao, ZD Energy, Co-founder
Jordan Harrison Klein, Allen Matkins LLP, Attorney
Zachary Glassman, Founder/Advisor
Nick Harney, Western University, Dean
Tomas Henrique Bode Maul, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Associate Professor
Hengjin Cai, Wuhan University, Professor
Sriraam Natarajan, University of Texas at Dallas, Professor
Teresa Phillips, CEO & Co-Founder, Spherex
Grant Stenger, CEO
Junhong Chen, Neoworld.Cloud, CEO
Philip Larrey, Humanity 2.0 Foundation, Chairman
Kyle Ruddick, One Day on Earth, Helo, Kinetic Magic, Director/Founder, World Record – Most Global FIlm Production
Kimberlee Weatherall, The University of Sydney, Professor of Law; Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making and Society
George Dyson, Unafilliated, Author of “Darwin Among the Machines” (1997), “Turing’s Cathedral” (2012), “Analogia: The Emergence of Technology beyond Programmable Control” (2020).
Deniz Aydın, Washington University in St. Louis, Professor
Paul Vos, East Carolina University, Professor
Joachim Diederich, University of Queensland, Honorary Professor
Etc., etc.
Ralph, even if the probability they are correct is low, the harm that could ensue is potentially catastrophic. There is no “undo” button and LLMs are not toys. I signed the petition and commented on some of the issues here:
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2023/03/28/ai-threatens-courts-with-fake-evidence-uw-prof-says.html
This open letter laughable. And it tried to disguise its true intent, its true hidden agenda. As always, it just concentrates on the technology safeguards and nothing more. Nothing about societal or economic impacts – which I’m sure the signers expect can be adapted in a 6 month timeframe 🙂
It does not propose any plausible strategy for guiding safe and ethical AI. Instead, this letter is an adversarial provocation designed to capture media attention. Musk has learned from Trump how to seize the news cycle. The problems are abundant and apparent but for brevity let’s just focus on the major ones:
1. The most prominent name on the letter is Elon Musk. He was an original OpenAI co-founder, tried to buy OpenAI but was rejected, and then pulled his money out. He is now has a team working 24/7 to build his own Open AI/ChatGPT competitor. Forcing his chief rival to pause their work benefits Elon‘s ambitions to build a competitor. His motivations for signing this letter are just totally suspect.
Researchers at Google and Deepmind — a division of Google — have signed this letter as well. Google is a direct competitor to Open AI and would benefit from a pause, as their public-facing Bard chatbot doesn’t compare to Open AI’s ChatGPT. Several people from other competitors of Open AI have signed this letter as well. In fact, almost all of the co-signers have equally hidden agendas but I want to keep this brief.
2. This letter, while written to the entire AI industry, is clearly targeting only one company: Open AI. Whose GPT-4 model is directly cited by the letter as the most power an AI should be allowed to achieve for now. All other AI models therefore would be exempt from this pause, as they are not as “powerful” as GPT-4.
3. Speaking of which, how do you objectively measure how “powerful” an AI model is? What constitutes a model from being close to GPT-4? What metrics do you use? This letter has NONE of that information. I don’t even think there is an objective way to measure it.
4. The idea that there is any legal or societal way to pause all AI development across-the-board globally is simply absurd. How do you enforce an AI ban? Who gets to enforce it? How do you determine their powers? Who determines which companies and their AI models are or are not advanced enough? Why would nations like China ever honor an AI ban, when it would give them a chance to catch up to the U.S. on AI development? This is just the beginning of the rabbit hole of unanswered questions.
Nobody who signed this letter gave a hoot to logistics or ramifications of their proposal. Its purpose was to generate PR. Fear always captures attention, even if that fear is manufactured.
Ethical guardrails into AI? As I wrote yesterday, Stephen Wolfram figured it out and so far his combined GPT/Wolfram Alpha might do the trick. Even OpenAI said they’ll tweak GPT-5 to accommodate. But Wolfram himself said “it’s early days” and it needs far more tests. Yet the first 150 test patterns all succeeded (GPT-3.5 was only 38% effective on the same 150).
Technology has always, on a long enough time scale, improved the human condition. Well, mostly. Let’s not discuss war technology for purposes of your question. But instead of proposing an impossible solution and stoking fear, we should guide AI’s development through the same process that allowed tech to properly scale: collaboration, transparency, practical solutions.
make illegal chapgpt development a felony. send lawbreaker developers to federal supermax
similar in a few ways to internal decision by genetic engineers who internally set up a temporary self ban on genetic engineering in mid 1970s after discovery of new restriction dna-cutting enzymes at asilomar conference. at admittedly a little exaggeration, like nuclear test ban treaty agreed for in 1960s. Faint echo of gunpowder social effects in fourteenth century.