First off: how many of these people have an interest in the field? How many have invested in related companies? This letter serves as a great hype for the techn

First off: how many of these people have an interest in the field? How many have invested in related companies? This letter serves as a great hype for the technology. If I had an AI company, I'd sign the letter too, it's great PR. Now: Bengio talks about the reasons he signed it and the reason is more in line of "machines pretending to be humans" i.e. everything from disinformation, security issues to companies interjecting LLMs where a human should be in the loop, causing all kinds of problems. Elon Musk is literally a twitter-bro that has shown his lack of technological understanding more times than I can count. Also his "visions" are nothing but badly regurgitated sci-fi tropes, distilled and unrealistic, sprinkled with the power of money on top targeted to people who don't understand technology. Marcus is constantly saying that the technology is hallucinating and too-early to be deployed. Hopfield I have no qualms with. But what do Woz, Jaan, Evan and Chris have to do with AI development?