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A recent open letter calling for a six month moratorium on training artificial intelligence (AI) systems more powerful than GPT-4 has provoked a controversy. Among the letter's many illustrious signatories is Elon Musk, who days later announced his own AI project. His name has ignited accusations of ulterior motives. This squabble is not only needless and unfortunate—it is also a stark demonstration of our limitations as human beings, and evidence of the urgent need for raising awareness of AI and creating thoroughgoing regulations and enforcement mechanisms around it. In my lives as a scientist, diplomat, businessman, and politician, I have...
