Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak are calling for a six-month halt on the AI race.
The two entrepreneurs cited security reasons as their leading cause of concern.
- Musk and Wozniak have signed a petition and a letter named Pause Giant AI Experiments.
- This petition has so far been signed by over 1,400 people.
- The letter claims that AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity.
- According to the text, AI could risk automating more jobs than ever before and help spread disinformation.
- The race for technological supremacy in artificial intelligence has become the main topic in the tech industry.
- OpenAI, an organization that Elon Musk co-founded with current CEO Sam Altman to combat the risks that could come from AI, has become the leading player in the sector by launching a commercial chatbot named ChatGPT.
- The tool became the fastest app ever to reach 100 million users.
- Microsoft, a major investor in OpenAI, has integrated ChatGPT into its search engine, Bing, while Google has also introduced an AI-powered tool of its own named Bard.
