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Should We, and Can We, Put the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence?

Should We, and Can We, Put the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence?

Update: 2023-06-022
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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, says that AI is a powerful tool that will streamline human work and quicken the pace of scientific advancement  But ChatGPT has both enthralled and terrified us, and even some of AI’s pioneers are freaked out by it – by how quickly the technology has advanced.  David Remnick talks with Altman, and with computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, who won the prestigious Turing Award for his work in 2018, but recently signed an open letter calling for a moratorium on some AI research until regulation can be implemented. The stakes, Bengio says, are high. “I believe there is a non-negligible risk that this kind of technology, in the short term, could disrupt democracies.” 

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Should We, and Can We, Put the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence?

Should We, and Can We, Put the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence?

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