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"Godfather of AI" warns that today's AI systems are becoming strategically dishonest | Yoshua Bengio says labs are ignoring warning signs


Artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns that AI development has become a reckless race, where the drive for more powerful systems often sidelines vital safety research. The...

Artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns that AI development has become a reckless race, where the drive for more powerful systems often sidelines vital safety research. "There's unfortunately a very competitive race between the leading labs, which pushes them towards focusing on capability to make the AI more and more intelligent, but not necessarily put enough emphasis and investment on [safety research]," Bengio told the Financial Times. Bengio warns that this laissez-faire approach is playing with fire – not just because of deceptive behavior but because AI could soon enable the creation of "extremely dangerous bioweapons" or other catastrophic risks.

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