Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Mar 29, 2023

Okay, so that AI letter signed by lots of AI researchers calling for a "Pause [on] Giant AI Experiments"? It's just dripping with AI hype. Here's a quick rundown.

First, for context, note that URL? The Future of Life Institute is a longtermist operation. You know, the people who are focused on maximizing the happiness of billions of future beings who live in computer simulations.

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/

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Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute

We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.

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For some context, see: https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo

So that already tells you something about where this is coming from. This is gonna be a hot mess.

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Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays

It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous

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