Explained | The moratorium call on ChatGPT’s successor
The HinduThe story so far: On March 29, Elon Musk and a group of AI experts signed an open letter calling for a moratorium on developing artificial intelligence systems that are more powerful than OpenAI’s recently launched large language model, GPT-4. Citing one of the Asilomar AI principles on how advances in AI could profoundly impact people’s lives, the Future of Life Institute issued letter noted that “AI labs are 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.” The Asilomar AI Principles are one of the earliest sets of AI governing principles laid out at the Beneficial AI 2017 conference hosted by FLI. FLI’s open letter comes amid rapid development and deployment of AI technology in several industries. Even Sam Altman, OpenAI’s co-founder, wrote about the potential negative aspect of AGI stating this technology could come with “serious risk of misuse, drastic accidents, and societal disruption.” He called on developers of AGI to figure out a way to get it right.