The arrival of the generative artificial intelligence It has brought with it as many defenders as detractors. The former believe that this technology has enough potential to change the world. The latter think in a similar way, only that they consider that this change could be significantly for the worse.
One of the technology leaders who has most openly criticized generative AI has been Elon MuskCEO of Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX.
It is striking that this is Musk’s position when he was one of the co-founders of OpenAI, the company that develops tools such as the ChatGPT text generator or the DALL-E image generator. However, the businessman has repeatedly acknowledged being “a little worried” about the development of this technology: “it’s quite dangerous“.
Musk is not the only business leader who has expressed concern about artificial intelligence. Last week, thousands of AI experts signed a manifesto that asked to pause the development of this technology for at least 6 months. “It should be developed when we are sure that its effects will be positive and its risks will be manageable,” the open letter pointed out.
Between the more than 3,000 signatories that the manifesto has are technological leaders, such as Musk himself, or Steve Wozniakco-founder of Apple, and experts in the field, such as Emad Mostaque, Stability AI CEO (one of the main competitors of OpenAI) or Connor Leahy, CEO of Conjecture (an AI company).
Leahy has gone a step further with his criticism of artificial intelligence and has ensured that “the price to pay is human extinction“. The businessman has made these statements to Fox News Digitalon the occasion of an interview in which he tried to define his initiative as a company which works to develop “bounded, predictable, and secure AI systems.”
“A small group of people are building artificial intelligence models at an irresponsible rate, far beyond what we can keep up with, and it just speeds up“, Leahy pointed out, referring to the work that OpenAI is doing in this process.
“We are unable to understand these systems and the biggest ones will be even more powerful and difficult to control,” said this businessman. “We should pause on the biggest experiments and redirect our focus towards the development of reliable and limited artificial intelligence systems.”
