Why are major entrepreneurs and experts calling for a suspension of the development of AI technology?

With technology companies racing to develop artificial intelligence devices, major business leaders in this field have begun to demand an end to the accelerated development of this industry, which is gaining more and more space in societies day after day.

Supporters of suspending technological activity believe that this step, even if it was adopted for a period of 6 months or more, would set safety standards for artificial intelligence activities and avoid its potential harm.

And the American “Future of Life” Institute, in which businessman and CEO of Tesla Elon Musk works as an external consultant, published a message entitled “Suspend the activity of artificial intelligence,” in which he called on companies to temporarily stop developing fourth-generation “Chat” systems. GBT”.

In addition to Musk, the letter was signed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and some AI company executives.

“safety of development”
On the other hand, the custodians of the “GBT Chat” project, affiliated with OPEN AI, confirm that from the beginning of their work they have given priority to safety in development, noting that they have spent more than 6 months conducting safety tests for the fourth generation.
The generative AI market exploded last fall, after OpenAI unveiled its GBT chatbot, which is highly capable of performing functions such as providing verbose answers and producing human-like computer code.

Faced with this development, other companies such as Google, Adobe, and others have worked to provide similar models for the normalization of conversation issued by OPEN AI, which Microsoft has adopted.

side effects
This conflict has raised concerns that the app could have collateral damage as well as real benefits.

Max Tegmark, one of the authors of the letter and head of the Future of Life Institute and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that advances in artificial intelligence have gone beyond what many experts thought was not possible just a few years ago.

For his part, Elon Musk expressed his concerns about artificial intelligence technology, and tweeted, “The developers of these programs will not heed the message, but at least I have communicated these concerns.”

Leading AGI developers will not heed this warning, but at least it was said

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 29, 2023