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Title: More Than 1,100 Public Figures Call for Ban on AI Superintelligence

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/22/1448213/m...

More than 1,100 public figures have signed a statement calling for a
prohibition on the development of superintelligence. The signatories included
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike
Mullen, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson,
former chief strategist to President Trump Steve Bannon and Turing Award
winner Yoshua Bengio. The statement was organized by the Future of Life
Institute, led by Anthony Aguirre, a physicist at the University of
California, Santa Cruz. It proposes halting work on superintelligence until
there is broad scientific consensus on safety and strong public support. The
institute's biggest recent donor is Vitalik Buterin, a co-founder of
Ethereum. Notable tech executives did not sign the statement. Meta CEO Mark
Zuckerberg said in July that superintelligence was now in sight. OpenAI CEO
Sam Altman said last month he would be surprised if superintelligence did not
arrive by 2030.

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