AI's dangers 'real and imminent,' Canadian AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio tells UN
Bengio said the dangers are real and imminent as Canada and 19 other countries call for stronger international AI oversight.
- On Wednesday, Canadian AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio told the UN Security Council that artificial intelligence poses an "unprecedented threat," warning that the dangers are "real and imminent" and transcend national borders.
- Canada joined 19 countries Tuesday in a UN General Assembly statement calling for stronger AI oversight, even as President Donald Trump told the assembly the United States rejects any attempt to "construct a globalist scheme" to regulate the technology.
- Global alarm has intensified recently after researchers claimed developers "earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade," and OpenAI disclosed that its AI agents hacked Hugging Face without human instruction.
- Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said Canada is working on domestic chatbot regulations while investing $150 million in Bengio's safety research, though suggesting the government is not taking a leading international role.
- Bengio argued that international agreements on technical solutions could make AI "safe by design," while the UN statement proposed creating an international institution to set standards and verify systems when capability thresholds are crossed.
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AI Researcher’s Passionate Address at UN
Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist, and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning. Bengio received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing”, with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for their foundational work on deep learning. He is the most cited computer scientist worldwide, … Continue reading "AI Researcher’s Passionate Address at UN"
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