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Bernie's Sanders quoted the March 2023 Pause Giant AI Experiments Open Letter's language "governments should step in and institute a moratorium" in a video today as justification for his legislation calling for a moratorium on the construction of new data centers, even though a moratorium on new data centers is not the kind of moratorium that the letter called for.
Bernie quotes the pause letter at 7:12:
[W]e must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. [...]
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. This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.
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