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Fortune
Peter Vanham

Would a 6-month A.I. pause help avoid serious problems?

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Should your company implement A.I. now, or wait, and prevent any negative potential impacts?

Andrew Yang, the tech-savvy 2020 presidential candidate, wants you to wait. It’s why he signed a letter asking for a pause in A.I. development for six months, alongside Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk, former Facebook executive Tristan Harris, author Yuval Noah Harari, and hundreds of others. He wants to use this period for “meaningful conversations” on A.I.’s impact.  

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