Approximately three years ago, a thousand leaders in the AI industry, including Elon Musk, signed a letter urging a slowdown in AI development due to potential dangers.

In 2023, almost everybody in AI signed an open letter warning that the extinction risk from AI was real and serious.

In March 2023, over a thousand leading AI experts, including Elon Musk, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell, called for AI labs to "immediately pause for at least six months."