The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."
—Eliezer Yudkowsky
Yoshua Bengio has warned of a democratic representation gap in AI decision-making as a Quinnipiac University poll finds 73% of Americans are concerned that future AI systems could threaten human survival.
The 13-member council, which includes Yoshua Bengio, was formed to advise the government on AI safety, adoption, economic competitiveness and creating AI-related jobs as it implements its AI for All strategy.
A Cambridge working paper co-authored by Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio says AI systems could automate most AI research and development within a few years, potentially creating a feedback loop that compresses years of AI progress into months or less.
The 40-member Independent International Scientific Panel on AI — co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio and Maria Ressa — released its first report on July 1, warning that AI safeguards are failing to keep pace with capabilities and that the Global South remains locked out of both AI development and governance. Guterres to governments: “Do not wait.”
The United Nations’ Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence convened its first in-person meeting last week in Madrid
