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AI exemplifies the 'free rider' problem – here's why that points to regulation

By Tim Juvshik, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Clemson University

On March 22, 2023, thousands of researchers and tech leaders – including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak – published an open letter calling to slow down the artificial intelligence race. Specifically, the letter recommended that labs pause training for technologies stronger than OpenAI’s GPT-4, the most sophisticated generation of today’s language-generating AI systems, for at least…

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