{"id":11619,"date":"2023-09-21T04:37:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T02:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/ai-focused-tech-firms-locked-in-race-to-the-bottom-warns-mit-professor\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T04:37:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T02:37:41","slug":"ai-focused-tech-firms-locked-in-race-to-the-bottom-warns-mit-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/ai-focused-tech-firms-locked-in-race-to-the-bottom-warns-mit-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-focused tech firms locked in \u2018race to the bottom\u2019, warns MIT professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Physicist Max Tegmark says competition too intense for tech executives to pause development to consider AI risks<\/p>\n<p>The scientist behind a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/mar\/29\/elon-musk-joins-call-for-pause-in-creation-of-giant-ai-digital-minds\">landmark letter<\/a> calling for a pause in developing powerful artificial intelligence systems have said tech executives did not halt their work because they are locked in a \u201crace to the bottom\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Max Tegmark, a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, organised an open letter in March calling for a six-month pause in developing giant AI systems.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/sep\/21\/ai-focused-tech-firms-locked-race-bottom-warns-mit-professor-max-tegmark\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ca6af0b84989aedf106fbbbce585433f792443f7\/0_0_4276_2566\/master\/4276.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2034373441402c8edab26b4f416d9a2a\" title=\"AI-focused tech firms locked in \u2018race to the bottom\u2019, warns MIT professor\" \/>Physicist Max Tegmark says competition too intense for tech executives to pause development to consider AI risks<br \/>\nThe scientist behind a landmark letter calling for a pause in developing powerful artificial intelligence systems have said tech executives did not halt their work because they are locked in a \u201crace to the bottom\u201d.<br \/>\nMax Tegmark, a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, organised an open letter in March calling for a six-month pause in developing giant AI systems. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicist Max Tegmark says competition too intense for tech executives to pause development to consider AI risks The scientist behind a landmark letter calling for a pause in developing powerful artificial intelligence systems have said tech executives did not halt their work because they are locked in a \u201crace to the bottom\u201d. Max Tegmark, a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/ai-focused-tech-firms-locked-in-race-to-the-bottom-warns-mit-professor\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI-focused tech firms locked in \u2018race to the bottom\u2019, warns MIT professor<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11619"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}