Artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Yoshua Bengio has co-authored a letter, along with researchers Stuart Russell and Gary Marcus, requesting a “public and verifiable pause” in the development of AI systems that are more powerful than GPT-4. The letter said that the pause should be “public and verifiable” and involve all those working on advanced AI…

AI systems can replace humans and remake civilisation, according to a letter written by the Future of Life Institute, an organisation focused on technological risks to humanity. The letter was signed by artificial intelligence (AI) experts including Yoshua Bengio, a Turing Award-winning artificial intelligence pioneer. It said language models like GPT-4 can already compete with…