Proceed with caution

Based on this article by Dylan Butts on CNBC.

The urgent call for a ban on "superintelligence" by over 850 public figures, including AI "godfathers" like Yoshua Bengio and Geoff Hinton, is a chilling signal we cannot afford to ignore. These leaders, alongside figures like Steve Wozniak and Richard Branson, are demanding a critical pause because developing a system that surpasses humans on all cognitive tasks poses an existential risk.

This proposal for a prohibition is not a Luddite rejection of technology, but rather a necessary action to prioritize humanity's long-term safety over the corporate race for advanced models. When the architects of modern AI caution against their own creation, it’s a definitive sign that the finish line in the superintelligence race is far more dangerous than any competitor realizes.

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