There has been a recent flurry of letters/articles/statements/videos which endorse a slowdown or halt of colossal AI experiments via (e.g.) regulation or coordination. This document aspires to collect all examples into a single list. I’m undecided on how best to order and subdivide the examples, but I’m open to suggestions. Note that I’m also including surveys.
This list is:
Living — I’ll try to update the list over time.
Non-exhaustive — There are almost certainly examples I’ve missed.
Non-representative — The list is biased, at least initially, towards things that I have been shown personally.
Please mention in the comments any examples I’ve missed so I can add them.
List of requests for an AI slowdown/halt.
Last updated: April 14th 2023.
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
by Future of Life Institute
Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down
by Eliezer Yudkowsky
We must slow down the race to God-like AI
by Ian Hogarth
The A.I. Dilemma
by the Center for Humane Technology
The case for slowing down AI [1]
by Sigal Samuel
The Case for Halting AI Development
by Max Tegmark, Lex Fridman
Lennart Heim on Compute Governance
by Lennart Heim, Future of Life Institute
Let’s think about slowing down AI
by KatjaGrace
The 0.2 OOMs/year target
by Cleo Nardo
AI Summer Harvest
by Cleo Nardo
Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time
by Akash, Olivia Jimenez, Thomas Larsen
Slowing down AI progress is an underexplored alignment strategy
by Michael Huang
Slowing Down AI: Rationales, Proposals, and Difficulties [1]
by Simeon Campos, Henry Papadatos, Charles M
What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
by lc
In the Matter of OpenAI (FTC 2023) [1]
by Center for AI and Digital Policy
We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI [2]
by Erik Hoel
Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Lex Fridman
We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky
by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Bankless
The public supports regulating AI for safety
by Zach Stein-Perlman
New survey: 46% of Americans are concerned about extinction from AI; 69% support a six-month pause in AI development
by Akash
About this document
There has been a recent flurry of letters/articles/statements/videos which endorse a slowdown or halt of colossal AI experiments via (e.g.) regulation or coordination. This document aspires to collect all examples into a single list. I’m undecided on how best to order and subdivide the examples, but I’m open to suggestions. Note that I’m also including surveys.
This list is:
Living — I’ll try to update the list over time.
Non-exhaustive — There are almost certainly examples I’ve missed.
Non-representative — The list is biased, at least initially, towards things that I have been shown personally.
Please mention in the comments any examples I’ve missed so I can add them.
Credit to Zach Stein-Perlman.
Credit to MM Maas.