“Do you think you have heard enough from local governments and health professionals before drafting a pandemic policy review bill?”

The above issue was raised in the Japanese Parliament by a member of the Parliament, but on his proposal ChatGPT. Thus, the participation of artificial intelligence in political activities debuted in Tokyo, and at the same time, an open letter was published in Future Life Institute signed by 1000 researchers from around the world who express their concern about the rapid and unregulated development of systems artificial intelligence technology companies.

“Over the past few months, AI labs have been embroiled in an uncontrollable race to develop and implement ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can reliably understand, predict or control,” the letter says. .

Signatories include leading artificial intelligence professors Stuart Russell and Joshua Benzio, co-founders of Apple, Pinterest and Skype, among others. The Future of Life Institute, which published this letter, has Musk among its largest funders and is run by Max Tegmark, an MIT professor and artificial intelligence researcher. “We call on all AI labs to immediately stop training AI systems stronger than GPT-4 for at least six months. If such a pause cannot be introduced quickly, governments should intervene and impose a moratorium,” the group added.

They are concerned about the rapid and unregulated development of artificial intelligence systems by technology companies.

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“With this step, we want to open an international discussion,” points to “K” Dr. Grigorios Tsumakas, assistant professor of computer science at AUTH and one of 1,000 registered researchers. In March 2018, Dr. Tsumakas was among the AI ​​engineers who, through the Institute for the Future, signed a boycott against the opening of the “National Defense Convocation and Artificial Intelligence Research Center” in South Korea. In this regard, Dr. Tsumakas highlights the risk of possibly replacing entire professional areas with artificial intelligence systems. “Even the programmer can be replaced,” he notes, “the system can already write code, until now it had to be corrected by the “hand” of a person, but a few days ago the system was able to write error-free code. , which even passed the android rules.”

In the so-called “creative” professions, the competition already coming from artificial intelligence systems is high. “This interview we’re doing right now could be done with artificial intelligence,” he comments pointedly. “Three weeks ago we were informed about the disbandment of the ethics department of large technology companies,” says Dr. Vassilis Plagianakos in “K”.Professor of Informatics with Applications in Biomedicine and Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Thessaly, who also signed the letter.

“These applications can make our daily lives easier, for example, students have a great tool to work with, like we had Wikipedia in the past, but development was very fast and without security barriers.” Significantly, these systems, in the “wrong” hands, can contribute to the creation of fake news, the social exclusion of population groups, etc. The call for a break from the frantic pace of development, “AI Summer,” as it is called in the letter, may not be heard. However, it is time to reconsider how this technological tool should be used in the future.