> An open letter published today calls for “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.”

We need to shut down AI more than that, forever. Otherwise it's just the prisoner's dilemma to create an end technology that is too powerful for us to handle and it will create chaos. The world is better off without AI.

gnabgib · 8h ago

(2023) Past discussions (219 points, 404 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35364833

(36 points, 79 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35504887

sherdil2022 · 2h ago

The genie is out of the bottle.

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