Elon Musk is right: AI needs to slow down for the good of society

• Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and over 1,000 others signed a letter calling for a pause on new AI models.
• The rapid rise of ChatGPT and tech likes it shows how it has incredible potential for good and ill.
• Taking a time-out from AI development helps make sure that it’s being done responsibly.

There’s precious little Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk agree on these days, with one notable exception: AI needs to slow down. 

Wozniak, Musk, and more than 1,000 other business leaders signed a letter seeking guardrails and a pause on training AI models as the technology grows more powerful. The letter argues powerful AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 “should only be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.”