“AI is advancing faster than the safeguards that are supposed to accompany it”, warn two researchers

They ask for “a break”. Six months of respite in the rapid, too rapid development of artificial intelligence. In a petition, published on the futureoflife.org website, Elon Musk himself and hundreds of experts around the world are concerned about the “uncontrolled race of laboratories to deploy ever more powerful digital brains, which no one – not even their creators — cannot reliably understand, predict, or control”.