Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Andrew Yang are amongst 1,100 signatories on an open letter calling for OpenAI to pause the development of artificial intelligence systems more potent than GPT-4 for at least six months.

The letter claims that AI systems with human-competitive intelligence pose significant risks to society and humanity, and if the private company fails to stop training its AI beyond the current GPT4 implementation, “governments” should force the issue. Musk, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, reportedly invested $100m in the project.In response to the petition, Musk responded, “Leading [artificial intelligence] developers will not heed this warning, but at least it was said.”

The letter argues that the focus should be making existing systems more accurate, safe, transparent, robust, and trustworthy while accelerating the development of AI governance systems. OpenAI has not yet responded to a request for comment.

(By Jason Nelson)