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Yoshua Bengio: Humanity faces a 'catastrophic' future if we don't regulate AI

Yoshua Bengio played a crucial role in the development of the machine-learning systems we see today. Now, he says that they could pose an existential risk to humanity.

In the past six months, there's also now a counterforce [pushing back against regulatory progress], very strong lobbies coming from a small minority of people who have a lot of power and money and don't want the public to have any oversight on what they're doing with AI. The strike broke out over pay, but the refusal of studios such as Netflix and Disney to rule out artificial intelligence replacing human writers became a focal point for the protestors. Spanning topics from quantum to consciousness and everything in between, you’ll find videos, articles, and even monthly online events from pioneering thinkers including Roger Penrose, Carlo Rovelli, and Sabine Hossenfelder.

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