An artificial intelligence expert is warning America that Elon Musk and others’ proposal to halt AI technology for six months is not nearly enough.

Eliezer Yudkowsky, a decision theorist at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute with more than two decades of experience studying AI safety said Musk and other understated the “seriousness of the situation.”

Yudkowsky said that he would take the moratorium further, implementing a halt of AI production that is “indefinite and worldwide.”

Yudkowsky’s suggestions appeared in an op-ed in which he warned that “literally everyone on Earth will die” if tech companies don’t put an end to AI building.

This comes after Tesla CEO Musk and hundreds of other tech people suggested in an open letter that there’s a six-month moratorium on producing “AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.”

“Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable,” the letter said.

“The key issue is not ‘human-competitive’ intelligence (as the open letter puts it); it’s what happens after AI gets to smarter-than-human intelligence,” Yudkowsky wrote for Newsweek.

Yudkowsky said that if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than human, it could ultimately disobey its creators and become an aggressor.

“Visualize an entire alien civilization, thinking at millions of times human speeds, initially confined to computers — in a world of creatures that are, from its perspective, very stupid and very slow,” he wrote.

Yudkowsky said that with no plan to deal with a superintelligence, it could lead to the annihilation of Earth.

“Visualize an entire alien civilization, thinking at millions of times human speeds, initially confined to computers — in a world of creatures that are, from its perspective, very stupid and very slow,” he writes.

Yudkowsky said that stopping the AI creation is highly important as it is a bigger threat than a nuclear apocalypse.

“Shut it all down,” Yudkowsky wrote. “Shut down all the large GPU clusters (the large computer farms where the most powerful AIs are refined). Shut down all the large training runs. Put a ceiling on how much computing power anyone is allowed to use in training an AI system, and move it downward over the coming years to compensate for more efficient training algorithms. No exceptions for governments and militaries.”

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