Comment by Pedro Domingos

I think we're not going too fast at all. In fact, I think we're not going fast enough. If AI is going to do things like cure cancer, do you want to have a cure for cancer years from now or yesterday? What is the point of a six-month moratorium? I don't think there's an out-of-control race. I think that letter is a piece of hysteria, and I think the bigger worry for me is not that AI will exterminate us, or for most AI researchers, is that a lot of harm will be done by putting in restrictions, regulations, moratoria, and whatnot that there's really no reason for. Unverified source (2023)