Power players, from Steve Wozniak to Steve Bannon, call for AI Superintelligence ban

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Hundreds of public figures — including multiple AI “godfathers” and a staggeringly idiosyncratic array of religious, media, and tech figures — just signed a letter calling for a “prohibition” on the race to build AI superintelligence.

Simply titled the “Statement on Superintelligence,” the letter, which was put forward by the Future of Life Institute (FLI), is extremely concise: it calls for a “prohibition on the development of superintelligence,” which it says should not be “lifted before there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably” as well as with “strong public buy-in.”

The letter cites recent polling from FLI, which was cofounded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Max Tegmark, showing that only five percent of Americans are in favor of the rapid and unregulated development of advanced AI tools, while more than 73 percent support “robust” regulatory action on AI.

Around 64 percent, meanwhile, said they felt that until superintelligence — or an AI model that surpasses human-level intelligence — could be proven to be safe or controllable, it shouldn’t be built.

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