# Future of Life Institute **Entity class:** Organization ## Definition The Future of Life Institute published the 2023 open letter [[wiki/Pause Giant AI Experiments|Pause Giant AI Experiments]], which asked questions about powerful AI systems and called for a temporary pause in training systems more powerful than GPT-4. The letter is a collective advocacy document, not a scientific consensus statement. ## Relationships - **Publication:** [[wiki/Pause Giant AI Experiments|Pause Giant AI Experiments]] is the institute’s published open letter and the source of the questions quoted in the associated Reminder. - **Conceptual context:** [[wiki/AI Safety|AI Safety]] is the relevant technical and policy domain; [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] is one possible trajectory posed as a question by the letter. - **Corpus routes:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] and [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] provide adjacent perspectives without representing the letter as Bryant’s settled position. ## Source - [Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter](https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/).