European Union lawmakers on Monday warned world leaders about the threats of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, urging them to hold a summit to discuss how to control its development.
The 12 members of the European Parliament (MEP), all working on EU legislation on this type of technology, called on President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to convene the meeting, and said AI firms should be more responsible.
The statement came weeks after Twitter owner Elon Musk and more than 50,000 people signed a letter asking for a six-month pause in the development of systems more powerful than Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s latest iteration of ChatGPT, which can mimic humans and create text and images based on prompts….