Elon Musk, Other AI Bigwigs Call for Pause in Technology’s Development

Although the intent is noble, I'm skeptical that this will work in practice. The research field and the commercial space is simply too competitive. 6 months is a very long time in the AI space. It's sort of a "prisoner's dilemma" in the sense that there's too much incentive to get ahead while others have paused their development.

One way this *might* work is if all cloud providers agreed to shut down AI / LLM training operations for all users over the 6 month period. But this doesn't seem very likely.