Reply To: ChatGPT is making up fake Guardian articles

Of course research on AI should not be stopped, not even for six months. Anyway, given capitalism it can’t be and won’t be. And of course, given capitalism, it will be misused but that can’t be stopped as long as capitalism continues.

It’s not clear what those who signed that call have in mind. They say they want a pause to consider these matters:

“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?”

And come up with answers in six months !

The questions seem rather loaded as the answer to them all will presumably be “no”.

In any event, the first two could only be dealt with in a socialist world of common ownership and democratic control of the Earth. The third begs the question by assuming this is likely to happen, is even technologically possible. As to the fourth, humanity has already lost control (in fact never had it); market forces control what happens and that, too, can only be ended by socialism.