Nearly 4,000 AI Leaders Ask Governments to Slow Down Superintelligence

Welcome back! From open letters to lawsuits, AI’s breakneck pace is beginning to feel like a collective anxiety test. Leaders are calling to pause superintelligence, companies are rewriting the boundaries of human work, and platforms are quietly drawing their legal lines. Everyone wants to build the future, but no one seems sure how fast is too fast.

In today’s Generative AI Newsletter:
• Global experts urge a pause on superintelligence research
• Amazon tests AI-powered glasses for delivery work
• Reddit sues Perplexity over data scraping
• Snapchat makes its AI Lens free for all users

An open letter from the Future of Life Institute has drawn 3,797 signatures from scientists, technologists, and public figures urging governments to pause the creation of superintelligent AI until it can be proven safe and publicly approved. The statement warns that accelerating work on systems capable of outperforming humans could lead to economic displacement, loss of civil liberties, and even human extinction.

Key Details
• The letter demands that governments prohibit superintelligence research until verifiable control measures are established.
• Polling released with the statement shows 64% of Americans support halting AI development until proven safe, while 5% favor unregulated progress.
• Major AI lab leaders from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, and xAI did not sign the letter, though OpenAI researcher Leo Gao did.
• The statement highlights risks tied to superintelligence, including potential societal disempowerment and erosion of human autonomy.

Signatories include Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Steve Wozniak, and Richard Branson, among others. The letter captures a growing sense of unease about how quickly AI is moving toward systems that could outperform humans across most cognitive tasks. Yet without a clear definition of what superintelligence is or how to pause it, the call for restraint risks becoming more symbolic than structural.

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Amazon has introduced new AI-powered smart glasses for its delivery drivers, a wearable designed to project navigation cues, package details, and delivery confirmations directly into a driver’s field of view. The technology removes the need to look between a phone, the road, and a doorstep, creating what Amazon calls a “hands-free” delivery experience.

What They Do
• The glasses display turn-by-turn walking directions, package scanning info, and delivery updates.
• A small vest controller houses the system’s battery, which can be swapped mid-route, along with an emergency call button.
• Early testers said the design feels safer and more efficient, keeping their attention forward instead of on a screen.
• Future updates aim to detect wrong drop-offs, identify hazards like pets, and adapt to low-light conditions automatically.

The idea is ambitious, a wearable interface that combines AI, navigation, and logistics in one tool. It also raises questions about how far worker augmentation can go before it starts to feel like surveillance. Amazon calls it a safety feature. Others might see it as a glimpse of a future where human work is guided and choreographed by a constant digital overlay.

Reddit has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, accusing the company of illegally copying Reddit posts to train its models without permission or payment. The complaint marks the first major legal challenge since Reddit began selling data access to AI companies earlier this year, including a $60M licensing deal with Google.

What’s in the Lawsuit
• Unauthorized scraping. Reddit claims Perplexity bypassed rate limits and copied user posts and comments to build its conversational AI.
• Monetization dispute. The company argues Perplexity gained commercial benefit from Reddit’s data while refusing to negotiate a paid license.
• AI data gold rush. Reddit now profits from giving approved AI partners structured access to its archives, part of its new post-IPO strategy.
• Rising friction. Similar conflicts are emerging across the web as platforms seek control over how their content trains models.

Reddit’s lawsuit draws a new line in the sand for the AI industry. The same data that makes large language models smarter is also the intellectual property of millions of unpaid users. Reddit is now charging for the very thing that made it valuable and suing the companies that skip the tab.

Snapchat has made its new “Imagine Lens” free for all users in the U.S., marking its first open-prompt AI image-generation Lens. The feature, which launched in September for paid subscribers, lets users create and edit Snaps with custom prompts. You can type anything from “turn me into an alien” to “grumpy cat,” and the app will instantly generate a new image based on your selfie or scene.

How It Works
• Custom AI prompts. Users can type creative ideas to transform their photos, try on costume concepts, or give friends new looks.
• Free access. The Lens, previously limited to Lens+ and Platinum subscribers, now offers a set number of free generations to all users in the U.S.
• Easy to find. It appears at the front of the Lens Carousel and can also be searched by name.
• Global rollout coming. Snap plans to expand access to Canada, Great Britain, and Australia soon.

Snapchat says users interact with Lenses over 8 billion times per day, making this release an easy way to keep people experimenting inside the app. The move comes as Meta and OpenAI push into AI-generated video tools, with Sora and Meta AI already giving users ways to turn prompts into motion. For Snapchat, making AI creativity free is less a gimmick and more a reminder that its core audience still wants to play.