More than 850 public figures, including artificial intelligence (AI) and technology leaders, have called for a slowdown in the race to create a form of AI that surpasses human intellect, known as “superintelligence”.
Prominent computer scientists such as Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio – widely considered the ‘godfathers’ of AI – signed the letter, as did Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson.
