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If you replace "AI" with "self-driving" throughout the open letter [0] then it still makes a surprising amount of sense (and of course any the incoherent bits can be smoothed out by ChatGPT if you prefer).

However I doubt Musk would have signed that version...

[0] https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime...

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It makes zero sense to ask for pause on self driving training.

A pause on deploying self driving cars on public roads is another matter, but there is no reason to ban the training.

Noticed Sam Altman was in the list yesterday too. Now removed. Has any of the high profile signatories confirmed publicly?

The Verge says it wasn't real Sam Altman.

>[…] though new names should be treated with caution as there are reports of names being added to the list as a joke (e.g. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, an individual who is partly responsible for the current race dynamic in AI).

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/29/23661374/elon-musk-ai-res...

Or, impossible I know, there are more than one person with the name "Sam Altman". Would suck probably, no one believes you are you, because another startup/tech-famous person have the same name.

When I checked yesterday I believe the signature said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, so it was definitely a joke signature, not a case of two people having the same name.

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