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Mark Brakel, policy director of Future of Life. Future of Life
DECRYPTION – This controversial organization is at the origin of the open letter calling for a six-month suspension of the creation of the most powerful AIs. She is actively working on the European AI Act.
“ We are calling on all artificial intelligence labs to immediately stop training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months. They should not be developed until we are certain that their risks are controlled. ” This open letter signed by Elon Musk and hundreds of AI researchers caused a stir when it was published last March. “ We did not expect such an impact, with echoes reaching as far as the European Parliament and UNESCOreacted six months later Mark Brakel, policy director at the Future of Life Institute (FLI), the non-profit organization behind this call. But our ambition is that the public debate that we have provoked will allow public authorities to address these issues. »
The Future of Life Institute, created in 2014 by Swedish cosmologist Max Tegmark and mainly funded by Vitalik Buterin, the creator of the Ethereum blockchain…