
The three witnesses at an Apr. 19 hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee's (SASC) cybersecurity panel said that a pause in the development of cutting edge artificial intelligence would not be practicable nor advisable militarily. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), the subcommittee's ranking member, asked the witnesses their views on an Apr. 12 open letter by the nonprofit Future of Life Institute, a watchdog group monitoring artificial intelligence, biotechnologies, nuclear technology, and climate change. The letter, whose signatories include Elon…