A petition led by Elon Musk to stop the development of artificial intelligence is dividing the tech community By Cointelegraph

Tesla (NASDAQ: ) CEO Elon Musk and Apple (NASDAQ: ) co-founder Steve Wozniak were signatories to an open letter signed by more than 2,600 technology industry leaders and researchers. The open letter calls for the temporary suspension of any further development of artificial intelligence (AI)..

The petition expresses concern that artificial intelligence with human competing intelligence may pose serious dangers to society and humanity. He called on all AI companies to “immediately stop” developing AI systems more powerful than the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) for at least six months. GPT-4 is a multimodal large language model created by OpenAI and is the fourth in its GPT series.