1000 researchers, CEOs: 'pause development of AI models bigger than GPT-4'

1,100 people include Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and Stuart Russell sign open letter

John Leonard
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1000 researchers, CEOs: 'pause development of AI models bigger than GPT-4'

Open letter warns of risks to humanity caused by emergent behaviours as large AI models tend towards artificial general intelligence (AGI)

More than 1,000 scientists, academics, authors and researchers have signed an open letter urging AI labs to pause development of "human competitive" AI systems. Signatories include some notable ...

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