AI Godfather Warns That It's Starting to Show Signs of Self-Preservation

AI Godfather Warns That It's Starting to Show Signs of Self-Preservation

If we’re to believe Yoshua Bengio, one of the so-called “godfathers” of AI, some advanced models are showing signs of self-preservation — which is exactly why we shouldn’t endow them with any kind of rights whatsoever. Because if we do, he says, they may run away with that autonomy and turn on us before we have a chance to pull the plug. Then it’s curtains for this whole “humankind” experiment. “Frontier AI models already show signs of self-pres…