If AGI arrives during Trump’s next term, ‘none of the other stuff matters’

Future of Life Institute cofounder Max Tegmark on regulating AI, Elon Musk’s potential to be a good influence on Donald Trump, understanding how LLMs think, and more.

More than 33,000 people—including a hall of fame of AI experts—signed a March 2023 open letter calling on the tech industry to pause development of AI models more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4 for six months rather than continue the rush toward Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI. “Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable,” stated the letter, which was spearheaded by an organization called Future of Life Institute.