Elon Musk and thousands of others recently issued an open letter calling for a moratorium on the development of advanced artificial intelligence. In response, Andrew Bosworth, CTO of Facebook’s parent company Meta, thinks it’s “unrealistic”.
▲ Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth
I think it’s important to invest in responsible development, and we do that all the time,” he said in an interview on Wednesday. However, it’s hard to stop progress and to make the right decisions about the changes you want to make. Often, you have to understand how the technology is evolving before you can know how to protect and secure it. So I think that’s not only unrealistic, but it’s not going to be effective.” He also revealed that Meta executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and himself, spend most of their time on artificial intelligence.
The open letter from the nonprofit Future of Life Institute has garnered more than 1,000 signatures, including from AI experts and Elon Musk. Elon Musk is co-founder of OpenAI, which developed the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, and the FutureLife Institute warns of “a race out of control to develop and deploy increasingly powerful digital minds that no one, not even their creators, can understand, predict or reliably control. “
Andrew Bosworth is not the only prominent figure to criticize the letter. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates also said the letter’s demands wouldn’t work, and “I don’t think asking a specific group of people to suspend development will solve the challenge.” Bill Ackman, a billionaire investor and hedge fund manager, said he opposes a moratorium on artificial intelligence because “we can’t trust what our enemies will do with it if they get ahead of us.
