The race to make humans redundant

AI cannot be controlled by policy changes. We need to adapt and prepare for the fallout

Around end-March, some 1,100 people, including Tesla founder Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, wrote an open letter calling for a six-month ban on advanced artificial intelligence (AI) so that the implications of this technology can be understood before it becomes unstoppable. The concerns emerged after OpenAI introduced its wildly successful ChatGPT to all users, followed by a more powerful GPT-4. GPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer, which is a language model that uses wide and deep learning to mimic human-like responses. It learns how to respond to human queries by scouring all available net-based information and looking for