The billionaire and visionary Elon Musk together with hundreds of world experts signed a call on Wednesday for the investigation of artificial intelligences (AI) more powerful than ChatGPT 4, the OpenAI model released this month that warned of “great risks to humanity”.

In the petition posted on the futureoflife.org site, they call for a moratorium until they are established security systems with new regulatory bodiesmonitoring AI systems, youTechniques that help distinguish between the real and the artificialand institutions capable of coping with the “dramatic economic and political disruption (particularly to democracy) that AI will cause.”

It is signed by personalities who have expressed theirs fears an uncontrollable AI that surpasses humanslike Musk, owner of Twitter and founder of SpaceX and Tesla, and historian Yuval Noah Hariri.

The Future of Life Institute is a non-profit organization set up to oversee the way technology is developed, largely funded by Musk himself; It has received more than 1,100 signatures in a few hours and has had to block registration due to the large influx of requests. The organisation Future of Life also warns of other risks to humanity, such as biotechnology, climate change, nuclear weapons.

The director of Open AI, who designed ChatGPT, Sam Altmanhas admitted to being “a little scared” that his creation will be used for “massive disinformation or cyber-attacks”.

“In recent months, we’ve seen AI labs embark on a headlong race to develop and deploy increasingly powerful digital brains that no one, not even their creators, can reliably understand, predict, or control,” they say.

“Should we allow the machines to flood our information channels with propaganda and lies? Should we automate all jobs, including the paying jobs? (…) Should we risk losing control of our civilization? These decisions should not be delegated to unelected technology leaders,” they concluded.

Signatories include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, members of Google’s DeepMind AI lab, Stability AI director Emad Mostaque, as well as US AI experts and academics and executive engineers from OpenAI partner Microsoft.

In recent months, organizations have been happy OpenAI with its GPT Chat have demonstrated the potential possibilities of AI. Big tech, mainly Alphabet, Baidu, Google with Bard And Microsoft with Copilothave intensified their commitment to this technology.