John Villasenor
Nonresident senior fellow in governance studies at the Center for Technology Innovation, The Brookings Institution
Villasenor is a nonresident senior fellow in governance studies at the Center for Technology Innovation, The Brookings Institution, and is also a professor of electrical engineering, law, public policy and management at UCLA. The following is an excerpt from a blog post published on April 11, 2023, titled, “The problems with a moratorium on training large AI systems.” In late March [2023], the Future of Life Institute released an open letter calling “on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least six months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This pause should be public and verifiable,…