- Published on September 23, 2023
- In AI Features
No, the Infamous 6-Month AI Pause Letter Wasn’t a Failure
Though the AI pause wasn't adopted, the letter's impact is evident, says signatory
- By Tasmia Ansari
Not a week has gone by without an AI industry insider trumpeting the existential risks of AI since late 2022, around the time when ChatGPT was released. In March 2023, thousands of business and AI leaders signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause on the training of AI systems more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4. The signatories warned that the technology could “pose profound risks to society and humanity". The call wasn't adopted, but the letter's impact is evident.
One of the signatories, Olle Haggstrom, doesn't think of the letter as a failure. “What we did was something very important, namely, we put the safety issue and the risk issue on the public agenda,” he told AIM. “Now that you and I are having this conversation, I think it is a success,” he added.
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Tasmia Ansari
Tasmia is a tech journalist at AIM, looking to bring a fresh perspective to emerging technologies and trends in data science, analytics, and artificial intelligence.
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