YouTubers including Mark Rober and Kurzgesagt call for slowing down AI

More than 60 YouTube creators, including Mark Rober and Kurzgesagt, back TeamHuman, a campaign calling for AI to slow down. According to its website, it is organised by creators and supported by the Center for AI Safety, which will deliver the signatures to lawmakers in Washington and Brussels this autumn. It asks governments to restrict the building of the most powerful AI systems, through an international agreement and a watchdog similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

On 16 October, the Siliconversations channel explained it in a video: it proposes banning the development of superintelligence until scientists know how to make it safe, and points out that treaties have already banned biological weapons and the gases that damage the ozone layer. The channel discloses that it receives funding from the Future of Life Institute.