“Therefore, we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 .”
The line sits at GPT-4, the model OpenAI already shipped. Everyone behind it gets frozen for six months and the leader keeps its lead. The letter worries about machines that “outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us” and skips the propaganda and job losses already arriving. A pause with no enforcement is a press release.