Call for Pause on Advancing AI Systems
March 30, 2023
Citing “profound risks to society and humanity,” more than 1,000 technology executives, researchers, and scholars call for a six-month pause on pursing advanced artificial intelligence systems until safety protocols are formulated, implemented, and audited. In Issues, Amitai Etzioni and Oren Etzioni offer a possible way for overseeing AI and other smart technologies. “What is required,” they write, “is the introduction into the world of AI the same basic structure that exists in practically all non-digital systems: a tiered decision-making system.” This would include developing oversight AI systems, called AI Guardians, that “understand and keep operational AI systems in line.”