Cross posted from my LinkedIn:

As excited as I am about #AI, I am deeply distrustful of those behind it. We have over two decades of Silicon Valley Visionaries creating products that they promise will “democratize,” the world and “bring us together” and other such nonsense.

The mantra has been “move fast and break things,” and they did.

It wasn’t until they made their millions (or billions) that any of them reflected on the things that were broken along the way, and the lack of goals reached.

Twitter was used to help move along the Arab Spring, and Facebook was used to attempt genocide in Myanmar.

The visionaries cannot dominate the conversation, nor can the voices of Silicon Valley execs that are still in the game.

The current execs that are sounding the alarm the loudest are the ones who stand to lose out if someone else beats them in the AI race. Many of them have worked on their own AI for years and are panicking now that they realize just how far behind they are.

This is the biggest moment, a Rubicon, any of us alive have seen, and may see. You don’t have to be an AI expert to do your part. Know who to listen to. Listen to them. Don’t listen to the rest.

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You can find an open letter that calls for, “[an immediate] pause for at least 6 months [of] the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4”

A number of those signatures are from competitors who are at least 6 months behind, hence, they are allowed to catch up to ChatGPT, but ChatGPT isn’t allowed to advance itself.

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/