US EditionAI arms race 'risks amplifying the existential dangers of superintelligence'
- Bengio expressed concern that advancements by DeepSeek could be troubling in a field long dominated by the US, according to an interview with The Guardian.
- He warned that in a competitive environment, entities might neglect safety measures, believing they are ahead, as quoted by Bengio.
- Bengio emphasized the need for national regulation to ensure AI companies prove safety before developing agentic models.
- He stated that current methods are insufficient to guarantee that these systems will not harm people or turn against them.
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Malicious use and loss of control | Researcher Yoshua Bengio alerts on the risks of AI
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.
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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Insider PaperInternational 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.
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…
'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 […]
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