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."

In January 2023, people inside major AI labs contacted the Center for Humane Technology, expressing concerns that the AI arms race was out of control.

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

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.

Brad Gerstner notes Elon Musk called for a six-month AI moratorium in 2023 due to civilization risk.