Should AI development be paused?
We can build it. The question is whether we should — and how fast. Leading AI researchers have called for a moratorium on training systems more powerful than GPT-4, warning of existential risk. Others argue that pausing is impossible to enforce and would simply hand the lead to less cautious actors.
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