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Moloch is 'extraordinarily hard to stop': thousands signed the 2023 pause letter, but no pause followed and the race continued at speed. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Tech leaders are calling for an 'AI slowdown' – but what would that mean in practice? (The Conversation) · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:6cc77b0a974647032b9d6c0091fb2bc5fbb39f411b824ea924e489716a2dee30

Moloch is a force that is extraordinarily hard to stop. Back in March 2023, thousands of leading researchers and technology figures signed an open letter calling for a worldwide six-month pause in the development of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4, but no such pause followed and the race continued at speed.