AI Ban Backers Risk Freezing Progress

AI Ban Backers Risk Freezing Progress

Hundreds of public figures—including some well-known technologists such as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and AI pioneers Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio—have signed a “Statement on Superintelligence” calling for a global ban on developing advanced AI until there is both “broad scientific consensus” and “strong public buy-in.” The effort, backed by the Future of Life Institute, reprises the group’s 2023 call for a moratorium on systems beyond GPT…