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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern UK technology editor

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Elon musk joins call for pause in creation of giant ai digital minds | Mind Blowing Facts

An AI supercomputer in California
An AI supercomputer in California. Elon Musk, a leader in AI technology, is leading calls for the risks of ‘giant’ AI computers to be assessed. Photograph: Rebecca Lewington/Reuters

More than 1,000 artificial intelligence experts, researchers and backers have joined a call for an immediate pause on the creation of “giant” AIs for at least six months, so the capabilities and dangers of systems such as GPT-4 can be properly studied and mitigated.

The demand is made in an open letter signed by major AI players including: Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI, the research lab responsible for ChatGPT and GPT-4; Emad Mostaque, who founded London-based Stability AI; and Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple.

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