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Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter

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Tl;dr: The harms from so-called AI are real and present and follow from the acts of people and corporations deploying automated systems. Regulatory efforts should focus on transparency, accountability and preventing exploitative labor practices. [Image Source: Rens Dimmendaal & David Clode / Better Images of AI / Fish reversed / CC-BY 4.0] On Tuesday March 28, the Future of Life Institute published a letter asking for a six-month minimum moratorium on "training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4," signed by more than 2,000 people, including Turing award winner Yoshua Bengio and one of the world’s richest men, Elon Musk. While there are a number of recommendations in the letter that we agree with (and proposed in our 2021 peer-reviewed paper known informally as "Stochastic Parrots"), such as "provenance and watermarking systems to help distinguish real from synthetic" media, these are overshadowed by fearmongering and AI hype, which steers the discourse to the risks of imagined "powerf

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