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[0] At least a thousand researchers, engineers, and tech executives signed an open letter Wednesday, urging the global tech community to pause work on AI.
[1] What happens if you do create something that is very good at an analysis and manipulation online, but also totally divorced from any kind of human constraint?
[2] Who were the notable names?
[3] And why are they issuing such an urgent warning?
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[22] In an unprecedented move, hundreds of tech executives, including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, are now calling for a six -month government -mandated pause on all advanced AI development, while safeguards for the new technology are considered.
[23] Here with more as Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce.
[24] Hey, Tim.
[25] So this demand from some of the most influential people on the planet when it comes to technology has really turned some heads First, tell us about this letter.
[26] Yeah, this isn't something we've exactly seen before.
[27] It really shows how alarm the signes, including Musk, as you mentioned, are.
[28] So the letter warns that the rapid expansion in AI that we're saying now could have some very serious and potentially dangerous downstream effects.
[29] That includes a spread of fake information online, as well as the unforeseen impact this tool could have on certain industries and the potential for mass layoffs.
[30] They're also worried about the possibility that AI tech could outsmart humans.
[31] Here's how Douglas Murray framed it in a recent interview on Fox.
[32] The treadmill of technology is running faster than we humans can run.
[33] We've known this for a long time.
[34] But the fact that there has now been this stressing that we're, you know, we can be in trouble.
[35] And this letter that they've sent is demanding specific action.
[36] Right.
[37] The letter calls for a cautionary six -month pause on any AI development stronger than the latest version of chat GPT, GPT4, which was released earlier this month.
[38] They say that decisions about AI that will impact the entire human race, quote, must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders.
[39] The signers are calling on governments to step in and help determine where the new tech should go.
[40] We spoke to James Paulus, an editor at the American Mind about this.
[41] Here's what he had to say.
[42] The kind of legislation that is needed is, frankly, digital rights amendments at the state and the federal level, things that in a clear and broad language of the Bill of Rights protect the core fundamental rights to the use and the ownership of digital technology that is consistent with and really emanates out of, I think, the First and Second Amendments in particular.
[43] So they're calling for some government intervention.
[44] Yeah.
[45] All right, Musk and Wozniak, the Apple co -founder, signed.
[46] Who else signed this?
[47] Venture capital guru Andrew Yang, the co -founders of Pinterest and Ripple, and lots of researchers from schools like Harvard and Stanford.
[48] The number and breadth of the signers shows just how much concern there is here.
[49] We're seeing more and more studies warning that AI will impact not just a lot of jobs, but perhaps the vast majority of them.
[50] A study released this week by OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, estimated that up to 80 % of jobs in the U .S. could have at least 10 % of their work affected by AI learning language models.
[51] They also estimated that about one in five jobs could see half their work tasks affected by this new technology.
[52] Then there are concerns about just how powerful this technology is and how it could be used to impact millions of people.
[53] Now, the cutoff on technology is ChatGPT's new product, Why the focus on that?
[54] Well, probably because it's the first mass market AI language system.
[55] Companies are already plugging ChatGBTGT or similar tools into their products.
[56] Microsoft, which poured billions into the company that made ChatGBT