Connor Leahy is a German-American[1] artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur currently serving as CEO of AI safety research company Conjecture.[2] He has warned of the existential risk from artificial general intelligence, and has called for regulation such as "a moratorium on frontier AI runs" implemented through a cap on compute.[3]

Career

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In 2019, Leahy reverse-engineered GPT-2 in his bedroom, and later co-founded EleutherAI to attempt to replicate GPT-3.[4]

Leahy was one of the signatories of the 2023 open letter from the Future of Life Institute calling for "all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4."[5][6]

In November 2023, Leahy was invited to speak at the inaugural AI Safety Summit.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Memes tell the story of a secret war in tech. It's no joke". ABC News. 2024-02-17. Retrieved 2024-07-01.
  2. ^ a b Stacey, Kiran; Milmo, Dan (2023-10-20). "Sunak's global AI safety summit risks achieving very little, warns tech boss". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-07-01.
  3. ^ Perrigo, Billy (2024-01-19). "Researcher: To Stop AI Killing Us, First Regulate Deepfakes". TIME. Retrieved 2024-07-01.
  4. ^ Smith, Tim (March 29, 2023). "'We are super, super fucked': Meet the man trying to stop an AI apocalypse".
  5. ^ Evans, Greg (2023-03-29). "Elon Musk & Steve Wozniak Sign Open Letter Calling For Moratorium On Some Advanced A.I. Systems". Deadline. Retrieved 2024-07-01.
  6. ^ "Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter". Future of Life Institute. Retrieved 2024-07-01.