Protests against artificial intelligence happened in the Bay Area and across the world Monday as San Francisco-based OpenAI made major announcements that raised the stakes in the AI industry.
OpenAI demonstrates some ChatGPT and GPT4 updates and didn't announce a new AI search engine as some speculated earlier.
Global protests were scheduled in a number of major cities worldwide, such as New York, London, Berlin, Paris and San Francisco. Protesters are demanding action ahead of an AI summit later this month.
"We're out here asking for OpenAI to be reigned in until we know that what they're doing is safe and that they're doing it in a safe way, and it really shouldn't be us doing that, it should be our government leaders,” Holly Elmore, executive director of PauseAI US, said.
They’re nervous about how eerily human the AI has become.
“It's gonna be very very close to the humans, and now look at your phone, your phone is not just a smartphone, it's a friend,” Ahmen Banafa, engineering professor at SJSU, said.
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