Twitter boss Elon Musk and hundreds of global experts on Wednesday (March 29) signed a call for a six-month pause in research into more powerful artificial intelligences than Chat GPT 4, the Open AI model launched in mid-  March . by evoking “major risks for humanity”, reported Thursday March 30 the French newspaper Le Parisien quoting the France press agency (AFP).

In this petition published on the  futureoflife.org website , they call for a moratorium until security systems are in place, including new dedicated regulatory authorities, monitoring of AI systems, techniques to help distinguish the real artificial and institutions capable of handling the “dramatic economic and political disruption (especially to democracy) that AI will cause”.

The petition brings together figures who have already publicly expressed their fears of out-of-control AI that would surpass humans, including  Elon Musk, owner of Twitter and founder of SpaceX and Tesla , and Yuval Noah Harari, the author of “Sapiens”. .

Also a signatory, Yoshie Bengio, Canadian pioneer of AI, expressed his concerns during a virtual press conference in Montreal: "I don't think society is ready to face this power, the potential manipulation, for example, of populations which could endanger democracies”. "We must therefore take the time to slow down this commercial race which is underway", he added, calling for discussion of these issues at the global level, "as we have done for energy and nuclear weapons. ".

Sam Altman, boss of Open AI, designer of chat GPT, himself admitted to being “a little scared” by his creation if it was used for “large-scale disinformation or cyberattacks”. "Society needs time to adjust," he told ABCN ewe in mid-March.

“The past few months have seen AI labs locked in an uncontrolled race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital brains, which no one – not even their creators – can reliably understand, predict or control,” they say. -they.