Making the rounds right now is this petition calling for "all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4... to jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development." The petition is being advanced by the Future of Life Institute - essentially a collection of some MIT professors, some actors, and Elon Musk - not exactly what I would call a common front for oversight and regulation. So I don't think ethics is the main driver here - it's more likely the fear of being left behind by Microsoft and Google. This sort of moral panic is typical, writes Donald Clark. "Every major shift in technology gets this reaction." And though you'd never know, it's not like nobody has been doing any thinking about the ethics of AI. "In addition to existing regulation, huge teams have been working on regulation in dozens of countries and political blocs, like the EU."
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