Elon Musk says A.I. race should pause for six months
Big tech leaders are calling for a six-month pause on experiments for A.I. systems more powerful than GPT-4. Tesla (
TSLA) & Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak, and 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang are three of the 1,000+ signatories on an
open letter saying A.I. systems can have "profound risks to society and humanity."
Yahoo Finance’s
Dave Briggs breaks down why despite some valid concerns brought up in the letter, Elon Musk is the wrong person to spread this message. Yahoo Finance’s
Seana Smith joins in to discuss the A.I. race.
Key video moments
00:00:12 On who signed the letter
00:00:32 On Elon Musk’s messaging
00:01:28 On Musk’s time at Twitter
00:01:40 On popularity of ChatGPT
00:02:00 On Bill Gates’ opinion
00:02:30 On the irony of Musk signing the letter
00:03:20 On Musk being a founder of OpenAI