In March 2023, a group of over 33,000 scientists, start-up founders, and corporate leaders signed an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on training powerful AI systems due to their risks to humanity. This was followed by an even louder tocsin. A precise twenty-two-word statement from the Center for AI Safety: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” This stark statement was signed by some of the biggest names in AI, the likes of Sam Altman, Bill Gates, Geoffrey Hinton, Demis
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