Yesterday’s mass call for a six-month moratorium on the development of next-generation A.I. models, for safety purposes, has not elicited much response from the companies at the center of the fray, such as OpenAI, Microsoft and Google. But the letter—signed by everyone from Elon Musk to philosopher and historian Yuval Noah Harari—has certainly sparked a great deal of commentary, much of it critical.
The thing is, those criticizing the call for a pause on A.I. development have quite different reasons for doing so. Here’s a rough guide to the various arguments we’re seeing.
