A.I. Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Proposes a Safe Alternative Amid Agentic A.I. Hype

A.I. Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Proposes a Safe Alternative Amid Agentic A.I. Hype

Agentic A.I. is currently all the rage in Silicon Valley. But the development of such autonomous systems could generate a myriad of safety issues with potentially “catastrophic” consequences, according Yoshua Bengio, a prominent figure in deep learning. A new study penned by Bengio and other A.I. researchers proposes agents be replaced with what they call “scientist A.I.,” a system with the primary purpose of aiding humans in scientific research…

Yoshua Bengio Proposes ‘Scientist AI’ to Mitigate Catastrophic Risks from Superintelligent Agents

Turing Award winner Yoshua Benjio, along with a group of AI researchers, on Monday proposed ‘Scientist AI’. This AI system is designed to accelerate scientific progress and research while functioning as a guardrail to protect against “unsafe agentic AIs”. The authors examined the shortcomings of building AI systems that model human cognition. They said, “Human-like agency in AI systems could reproduce and amplify harmful human tendencies, potent…