About a year ago, a few months after I publicly took a stand with many other peers to warn the public of the dangers related…| Yoshua Bengio
AI with superhuman abilities could emerge within the next few years, and there is currently no guarantee that we will be able to control them. We must act now to protect democracy, human rights…| Journal of Democracy
I have been hearing many arguments from different people regarding catastrophic AI risks. I wanted to clarify these arguments, first for myself, because I would really like to be convinced that we need not worry. Reflecting on these arguments, some of the main points in favor of taking this risk seriously can be summarized as follows: (1) many experts agree that superhuman capabilities could arise in just a few years (but it could also be decades) (2) digital technologies have advantages over...| Yoshua Bengio
This post discusses how rogue AIs could potentially arise, in order to stimulate thinking and investment in both technical research and societal reforms aimed at minimizing such catastrophic outcomes.| Yoshua Bengio
A milestone document in the history of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. It has been translated into over 500 languages.| United Nations