A ‘Godfather of AI’ Calls for an Organization to Defend Humanity

Last month, on a day when temperatures in Montreal soared past 90 degrees Fahrenheit, Bengio and I sat down in his office to discuss nuance in attention-grabbing headlines about AI, taboos among AI researchers, and why top AI researchers may disagree about the risks AI pose to humanity..

In other words, even if we only figure out the principles that are sufficient to explain most of our intelligence and put that in machines, the machines would automatically be smarter than us because of technical things like the ability to read huge quantities of text and integrate that much faster than the human couldlike tens of thousands or millions of times faster...

But now the way people understand it and the way media uses it just means an AI system that is good at a lot of things...

They were afraid that talking about these future, science-fiction-sounding risks would detract from the discussion of the injustice that is going onthe concentration of power and the lack of diversity and of voice for minorities or people in other countries that are on the receiving end of whatever we do...

For example, if the number of people who are allowed to manipulate potentially dangerous AI systems is reduced to a few hundred in the world, it could reduce the risks by more than 1,000 times..

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