Faced with the recent boom in new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, in the past weeks, nearly 30,000 leading technologists, ethicists and civil society activists signed an open letter calling on the tech industry to hit pause on developing more advanced Large Language Models (LLM) in AI for at least six months to allow for the creation of appropriate guardrails around their potential risks. And, they suggest, if AI labs refuse to voluntarily pause then the government should step in to impose a moratorium.