A Call for a Pause in Giant AI Experiments
As Enterprise Data Scientists, we have an obligation to ensure best practices, not only for our enterprises, but also for the public good. We need to address the non-technical issues that LLMs raise.
LLMs (large language models) have mainly been developed by AI researchers and technologists. The call for a pause in further development is a good one to account for the ethical, scientific, sociological, economic and psychological implications of these AI probabilistic software.
We need:
✅ Ethicists
✅ Scientists
✅ Sociologists
✅ Economists
✅ Psychologists
What other disciplines are we missing? Please sign the open letter below, if you agree with this moratorium:
https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
Just because you’re ethical and behave ethically, doesn’t mean you have the training, methodology, and analysis to take the place of an ethicist to address the ethical and philosophical issues that these giant AI experiments raise.
Unfortunately, many AI researchers are against the pause with this thinking. Let AI researchers do machine learning. But let other experts work on the other important issues in their domains. We need ethicists, scientists, sociologists, economists, and psychologists to address the ethical, scientific, sociological, economic, and psychological issues that LLMs raise.
Disclaimer: while the author has signed the open letter to pause giant AI experiments, the opinions of this post are the sole opinion of the author.
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