As we move towards more powerful AI, it becomes urgent to better understand the risks, ideally in a mathematically rigorous and quantifiable way, and use…
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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…
Comments closedIn November 2023, I’ve been given the responsibility to chair the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI as part of an international…
Comments closedWhat can’t we afford with a future superintelligent AI? Among others, confidently wrong predictions about the harm that some actions could yield. Especially catastrophic harm.…
Comments closedI have been thinking about this question for several months: what if AI continues to progress towards and beyond our abilities in areas where it…
Comments closedOn May 31st, 2023, a BBC web page headlined: “AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio feels ‘lost’ over life’s work.” However, this is a statement I never…
Comments closedThe capabilities of AI systems have steadily increased with deep learning advances for which I received a Turing Award alongside Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto)…
Comments closedI have been hearing many arguments from different people regarding catastrophic AI risks. I wanted to clarify these arguments, first for myself, because I would…
Comments closedScenarios giving rise to potentially rogue AIs, from intential genocidal behavior of some humans to unintentional catastrophe arising because of AI misalignment.
Comments closedThere have recently been lots of discussions about the risks of AI, whether in the short term with existing methods or in the longer term…
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