Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

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  Duncan Cass-Beggs

  Executive Director of the Global AI Risks Initiative at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI); former OECD Senior Counsellor for Strategic Foresight

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  votes For and says:

  [...] And the whole world might have an interest in saying, hold on, wait -- let's not make artificial super intelligence until we can be sure that it can be controlled or done safely. [...] We can have all that while at the same time working togethe...

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  Anthony Aguirre

  Physicist; Future of Life cofounder

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  We don't have to do this. We have human-competitive AI, and there's no need to build AI with which we can't compete. We can build amazing AI tools without building a successor species. The notion that AGI and superintelligence are inevitable is a cho...

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  Lord Strasburger

  Liberal Democrat life peer

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  A moratorium and binding international regulation of ASI is, frankly, our only hope, however hard it will be to agree. It will be even harder to enforce, but we have to do it; there is no choice.

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  Lord Fairfax of Cameron

  Scottish hereditary peer; Conservative member of the UK House of Lords; AI safety advocate

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  In the face of these threats, I urge the Government to take the following steps: first, to publicly recognise that superintelligence poses an extinction threat to humanity; secondly, for the UK to prevent the development of superintelligence on its s...

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  Holly Elmore

  Founder and Executive Director of PauseAI US; evolutionary biologist and AI moratorium advocate

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  We need to Pause frontier AI development if we're ever going to have time and latitude to even see if superintelligence could be safe and respect human consent. And if we find out it can't be, then we need to keep superintelligence paused forever.

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  Johnnie Moore

  American evangelical leader and businessman, founder of The Kairos Company and chairman of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

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  We should rapidly develop powerful AI tools that help cure diseases and solve practical problems, but not autonomous smarter-than-human machines that nobody knows how to control. Creating superintelligent machines is not only unacceptably dangerous a...

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  Nate Soares

  AI safety researcher; MIRI president

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  votes For and says:

  If we build it using anything remotely like modern methods, on anything remotely like the current understanding or lack of understanding that we have about AI, then yeah, building it anytime soon would be a death sentence. [...] When you're in a car ...

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  Roman V. Yampolskiy

  AI safety researcher, Louisville professor

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  Until some company or scientist says ‘Here’s the proof! We can definitely have a safety mechanism that can scale to any level of intelligence,’ I don’t think we should be developing those general superintelligences. We can get most of the benefits w...

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  Joe Allen

  American writer and transhumanism commentator, War Room correspondent.

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  If superintelligence is achievable and the public buys in, then I'm out.

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  Demis Hassabis

  Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

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  votes For and says:

  If we can, maybe it would be good to have a slightly slower pace than we’re currently predicting, [...] so that we can get this right societally. [...] I think so. [...] international collaboration.

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  Colin Deacon

  Independent Senator for Nova Scotia, Canada; former technology entrepreneur; advocate for responsible AI, data and innovation policy

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  There is AI that is not responding to instructions, to commands, and there are documented cases of that. [...] If we don't consider ways to manage what we know is occurring already, and there is use of autonomous weapons already, if we are not lookin...

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  Connor Leahy

  Conjecture CEO; AI safety researcher

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  votes For and says:

  Most of the AI safety community has been far too coy about extinction risk. We're not. It's not that complicated: AI smarter than humanity poses an unacceptable risk of human extinction, and we need an [international ban].

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  Lionel Tarassenko

  Oxford engineer and Crossbench life peer

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  votes Against and says:

  My own view, after talking with colleagues in the AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, is that a moratorium would be unenforceable. Instead, I support the proposal made this week by the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, to set up a commis...

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  Narendra Patel

  Obstetrician and House of Lords peer

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  votes Against and says:

  I come from the position of saying that moratoriums will not work. But we can work in co-operation with other nations that have already started regulating, such as South Korea and Australia, as well as work with our AI Security Institute in the Unite...

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  Lord Patel

  Narendra Babubhai Patel KT; Baron Patel; British obstetrician and crossbench peer in the UK House of Lords

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  I come from the position of saying that moratoriums will not work. But we can work in co-operation with other nations that have already started regulating, such as South Korea and Australia, as well as work with our AI Security Institute in the Unite...

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  Nick Bostrom

  Philosopher; 'Superintelligence' author; FHI founder

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  votes Against and says:

  Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. [...] Models incorporating safety progress, temporal discounting, quality-of-life differentia...

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  Dario Amodei

  CEO at Anthropic

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  votes Against and says:

  [...] the idea of stopping or even substantially slowing [...] is fundamentally untenable. If one company does not build it [...] authoritarian countries would simply keep going.

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  Ben Brooks

  Head of public policy, Stability AI

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  votes Against and says:

  Since the launch of powerful open models like the Llama, Falcon, Mistral, and Stable Diffusion families, critics have pressed to keep other such genies in the bottle. "Open source software and open data can be an extraordinary resource for furthering...

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  Marc Andreessen

  General Partner at a16z (VC), co-founder of Netscape

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  We believe in accelerationism [...] upward spiral continues forever. [...] Our enemy is the Precautionary Principle [...] and we must jettison it with extreme prejudice.

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  Gary Marcus

  Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

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  votes Against and says:

  My opinion is that the moratorium that we should focus on is actually deployment until we have good safety cases. I don't know that we need to pause that particular project, but I do think it's emphasis on focusing more on AI safety, on trustworthy, ...

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  The Editorial Board

  Bloomberg Opinion editorial board

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  This is a formula for outright stagnation. [...] But rather than trying to anticipate every risk, regulators should let entrepreneurship flourish while efforts to monitor and improve AI safety proceed in parallel.

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  Yann LeCun

  Computer scientist, AI researcher

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  My first reaction to [the letter] is that calling for a delay in research and development smacks me of a new wave of obscurantism,

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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  But the governance of the most powerful systems, as well as decisions regarding their deployment, must have strong public oversight. We believe people around the world should democratically decide on the bounds and defaults for AI systems. Second, w...

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  Lionel Tarassenko

  Oxford engineer and Crossbench life peer

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  votes Against and says:

  My own view, after talking with colleagues in the AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, is that a moratorium would be unenforceable. Instead, I support the proposal made this week by the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, to set up a commis...

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  Elon Musk

  Founder of SpaceX, cofounder of Tesla, SolarCity & PayPal

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  If I could put a pause on AI or really advanced AI, superintelligence, I would. It doesn’t seem that is realistic.

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  Emily M. Bender

  Linguist; AI critic

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  votes Against and says:

  Treating speculative “superintelligence” as the policy target and proposing to freeze development until there’s public buy‑in and scientific consensus distracts from the actual, present‑day harms of AI systems. These systems are already amplifying di...

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  Jensen Huang

  Nvidia cofounder and CEO

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  AI is a foundational technology that every country, every industry, and every person will ultimately rely on. You can’t slam on the brakes and wait for some abstract consensus before building the future. We should not be putting up stop signs to prog...

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  OpenAI

  AI research organization

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  votes Against and says:

  We are likely to eventually need something like an IAEA for superintelligence efforts; any effort above a certain capability (or resources like compute) threshold will need to be subject to an international authority that can inspect systems, require...

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