“Halting Artificial Intelligence Research: An Unfeasible Idea due to its Unstoppable Evolution and Significance for the Economy”

Artificial intelligence is certainly not new, but with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the technology gained enormous awareness and popularity among the general public. Suddenly a machine could write texts or have conversations like a human, or so we got the impression. Because the chatbot obviously cannot reason and simply puts the most logical words in a row when it receives a question.

The technology is catching on: in 5 days time more than a million people use ChatGPT and after two months there are already 100 million. By way of comparison: TikTok took nine months to do that and Instagram more than two years.