Claim · 2023-03-31 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

The DAIR statement of 31 March 2023 answers the Future of Life Institute letter, which it names.

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Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the "AI pause" letter → cites → Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

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Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the "AI pause" lettercites ↓Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

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Date: 2023-03-31 · publication Records dated 2023 →

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Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the "AI pause" letter

DAIR Institute blog (dair-institute.org) · 2023-03-31

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“On Tuesday March 28, the Future of Life Institute published a letter asking for a six-month minimum moratorium”

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Authors: Timnit Gebru; Emily M. Bender; Angelina McMillan-Major
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 794c5c0ce1d0c8bb18d5137511abe280e3c4b2b00eb9ab550fb7bacf436829cb). Current blog page dated March 31, 2023; byline as printed on the page (three names). The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Timnit Gebru, Emily M. Bender, Angelina McMillan-Major, “Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the "AI pause" letter”, 2023-03-31.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (18 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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