FOR A BREAK ON THE RACE TO A.I. AND AN INTERNATIONAL TREATY

 

 Dear reader,

 Although artificial intelligence is a useful tool in a wide variety of fields (medicine, environment) and allows various innovations, many experts have shared their fears regarding A.I.

 

 DANGERS :

 The latest survey of 2,700 experts in 2024 shows that for more than half of experts, artificial intelligence presents an existential risk of 5% to 10%.

 In 2023, more than 1,100 experts, researchers and major private actors such as Elon Musk, Sam Altman (designer of ChatGPT) or companies like Google have requested a six-month pause in the design of A.I. to be able to better control them.

 One of the inventors of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, resigned from his Google job because he refused to continue creating machines that could potentially be dangerous; he said the same year, in 2023, that stronger regulation was needed for A.I. does not get out of control, warning of four main dangers: the most notable being that the A.I becomes uncontrollable on its own, but also that malicious people attempt to use the A.I for dangerous purposes.

 Great scientists such as Stephen Hawking have long warned of the dangers of A.I.

 

WHY WE NEED TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY NOW

 The 2023 petition signed by more than 1,100 experts and researchers called for a 6-month pause to prevent the development of models more powerful than ChatGPT 4, which could lead to general artificial intelligence, that is to say equal to the man. Experts acknowledge that they do not know if they will be able to control this artificial general intelligence, once created.

 FOR WHAT ?

 It itself can create in a few minutes a super intelligence which will itself create other super intelligences (theory by Alan Turing).

 Even if she has no feelings or consciousness, she can accomplish the goal given to her in an extreme way without being able to control her. Even if she does not consider us enemies, we will be as inferior to her as animals are to us. If we want to build a bridge, even if we do not want to harm the animals, we do not hesitate to destroy their natural habitat to build this bridge. Likewise, we can be treated in this way by superintelligence. (theories)

 The goal of companies like OpenAI (ChatGPT 4) is precisely to create this general artificial intelligence. Previously, experts didn't think it could exist, but now the question is no longer IF but WHEN: for many researchers, in almost 2 or 3 years. It is this general artificial intelligence that is causing the risk of extinction of humanity and it is happening very quickly. At this speed, governments do not have time to adapt and create new laws quickly enough to secure AI and protect us.

 

 THE SOLUTIONS

 far more budget is devoted to the development of artificial intelligence than to its security. More employees and money are needed in the AI ​​security sector

 regulation of artificial intelligence using the alignment technique

 international demands: take the existential risk seriously at the next summit on artificial intelligence in South Korea and then in our country in France, so that the existential risk estimated at 5% to 10% is reduced to 1 or less than 1%

 an international treaty on the regulation of AI

 a break on the development of smarter AI than ChatGPT 4

 

WE DO NOT WANT to stop evolution and innovation. WE WANT innovation to occur without risk for the entire population. If before boarding a plane, you were told that there was a 5 to 10% chance that it would crash, would you board?

 

 Please educate yourself on this topic and concepts (artificial general intelligence, superintelligence, S-risks) and take them seriously. The race for artificial intelligence threatens not only jobs but all of humanity. Do some Google searches, it only costs you twenty minutes. Then talk about it to those around you. Sign the petitions. Send emails and letters to the Élysée and foreign governments with these demands. Stop using ChatGPT to drive down demand and slow down the AI ​​race. You are tired and you have personal problems, I know. But throughout humanity people have fought for our rights and so that we can live free, safe and with dignity. It is our duty to continue this fight.

 

 FOR THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN SAFETY AND TO CLAIM SAFE INNOVATIONS FOR OUR FUTURE.

 Signed: a nineteen year old girl