This week an open letter signed by more than 25,000 people, including Elon Musk and Apple's Steve Wozniak has called for all Artificial Intelligence labs to immediately pause the training and development of AI systems for at least six months.
The letter asked rhetorically, 'Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?'.
Associate Professor Grant Duncan from Massey University says the letter assumed that ‘our civilization’ is something that ‘we’ had been controlling.
He joins Sunday Morning to explain why he believes the open letter was unrealistic about the effectiveness of a six-month pause and what could be achieved within that time.
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