AI arms race 'risks amplifying the existential dangers of superintelligence'

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Faced with the frantic race between tech giants around artificial intelligence (AI), researcher Yoshua Bengio warned on Thursday against the “harmful” effects of this technology, as the scientific part of the AI summit in Paris begins.

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The AI Arms Race

Judd Rosenblatt joins Jordan McGillis to discuss DeepSeek and the competition around AI development.  Audio Transcript Jordan McGillis: Welcome to 10 Blocks. I’m Jordan McGillis, Economics Editor of City Journal. On January 20th, 2025, the Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek released its R1 model. The model is competitive with top American models, but DeepSeek has […]

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International report warns against loss of control over AI

A frantic race by tech giants to develop ever more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) could have "harmful" effects, leading researcher Yoshua Bengio warned Thursday as scientists marked the start of the Paris global summit on the technology.

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The race to God Mode

There is a new goal for tech start-ups: wipe out $1trn in stock market value in a single day. That’s what the Chinese AI company DeepSeek achieved on 27 January. DeepSeek employs about 200 people and its hiring practices follow the much-touted Silicon Valley model (a model that remains far from reality in Silicon Valley itself): hire young talent, disregard qualifications, focus on sheer intellect and eschew fixed hierarchies. Notably, all of it…

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We are successful in developing artificial intelligence. At the summit in Paris, we will discuss whether Europe can compete with the US and China.

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'Godfather' of AI warns arms race risks amplifying dangers of 'superhuman' systems | UK News | Tech, Entertainment, Sport, Fashion, Travel News

An arms race for artificial intelligence (AI) supremacy, triggered by recent panic over Chinese chatbot DeepSeek, risks amplifying the existential dangers of superintelligence, according to one of the “godfathers” of AI. Canadian machine learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio, author of the first International AI Safety Report to be presented at an international AI summit in Paris […]