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Future of Life Institute

non profit_organizationCredibility: 55%

Why this score? Existential-risk nonprofit (Max Tegmark, president) that authored the March 2023 'Pause Giant AI Experiments' open letter. Advocacy org — motivated framing; authoritative as the primary source for its own letter.

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Therefore, we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.?

— Future of Life Institute · Mar 22, 2023
Context: The Future of Life Institute’s ‘Pause Giant AI Experiments’ open letter, signed by Musk, Bengio, Russell, Wozniak and thousands of others. As a matter of record no lab paused — training of GPT-4-class and more capable models continued and accelerated through 2023–2026 — and nineteen past AAAI presidents published a counter-letter on 5 April 2023 urging ‘a constructive, collaborative, and scientific approach’ instead. But the letter is a normative call to action and a risk judgement, not a falsifiable factual prediction, so it is recorded rather than scored against its signatories.