Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio have signed onto yet another open letter , this time advocating for the prohibition of “superintelligence” development.

“We … need to make sure the public has a much stronger say in decisions that will shape our collective future.”

Bengio and Hinton have long expressed concern about dangers stemming from artificial general intelligence (AGI), a hypothetical future scenario in which AI achieves human-level intelligence across many subjects. “Superintelligence” refers to one step beyond AGI, when AI surpasses human-level intelligence, a feat many tech companies like Meta are chasing.

The open letter, organized by the Future of Life Institute , has been signed by over 1,500 people as of this writing, including

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