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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Yoshua Bengio
Implications of Artificial General Intelligence on National and International Security
This paper was initially published by the Aspen Strategy Group (ASG), a policy program of the Aspen Institute. It was released as part of a… L’article Implications...
From Yoshua Bengio
Bounding the probability of harm from an AI to create a guardrail
As we move towards more powerful AI, it becomes urgent to better understand the risks, ideally in a mathematically rigorous and quantifiable way, and use… L’article...
From Yoshua Bengio
Reasoning through arguments against taking AI safety seriously
About a year ago, a few months after I publicly took a stand with many other peers to warn the public of the dangers related… L’article Reasoning through arguments...
From Yoshua Bengio
The International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI
In November 2023, I’ve been given the responsibility to chair the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI as part of an international… L’article...
From Yoshua Bengio
Towards a Cautious Scientist AI with Convergent Safety Bounds
What can’t we afford with a future superintelligent AI? Among others, confidently wrong predictions about the harm that some actions could yield. Especially catastrophic...
From Yoshua Bengio
Proposal for a Multilateral Network of Public Good AI Research Labs to Protect Democracy and Humanity
I have been thinking about this question for several months: what if AI continues to progress towards and beyond our abilities in areas where it… L’article Proposal...
From Yoshua Bengio
Personal and Psychological Dimensions of AI Researchers Confronting AI Catastrophic Risks
On May 31st, 2023, a BBC web page headlined: “AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio feels ‘lost’ over life’s work.” However, this is a statement I never… L’article Personal...
From Yoshua Bengio
My testimony in front of the U.S. Senate – The urgency to act against AI threats to democracy, society and national security
The capabilities of AI systems have steadily increased with deep learning advances for which I received a Turing Award alongside Geoffrey Hinton (University ofMy...
From Yoshua Bengio
FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks
I have been hearing many arguments from different people regarding catastrophic AI risks. I wanted to clarify these arguments, first for myself, because I would...
From Yoshua Bengio
How Rogue AIs may Arise
Scenarios giving rise to potentially rogue AIs, from intential genocidal behavior of some humans to unintentional catastrophe arising because AI misalignment. L...
From Yoshua Bengio
AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI?
There have recently been lots of discussions about the risks of AI, whether in the short term with existing methods or in the longer term… L’article AI Scientists...
From Yoshua Bengio
Slowing down development of AI systems passing the Turing test
I recently signed an open letter asking to slow down the development of giant AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 –those that currently pass the… L’article Slowing...
From Yoshua Bengio
Scaling in the service of reasoning & model-based ML
This blog post is co-written by my PhD student Edward J. Hu. Scaling seems to work really well. We must be cautious in pursuing research… L’article Scaling in the...
From Yoshua Bengio
Generative Flow Networks
I have rarely been as enthusiastic about a new research direction. We call them GFlowNets, for Generative Flow Networks. They live somewhere at the intersection...
From Yoshua Bengio
Superintelligence: Futurology vs. Science
We sometimes come across catchy headlines about AI that can scare or excite us, such as “By the middle of this century, artificial intelligence will… L’article ...
From Yoshua Bengio
The complexity of the climate change challenge
I was at the Montreal climate march on Friday Sept 24th, 2021 with a bunch of Mila folk and it got me thinking again and… L’article The complexity of the climate...
From Yoshua Bengio
Bringing future societal impact into present incentives
In my previous blog entry, I discussed how when each person or corporation maximizes their individual interests, it can easily end up with most of… L’article Bringing...
From Yoshua Bengio
When Maximizing Individual Interests Can Make Us All Lose (usually some losing more than others)
Many experts, but not enough people, are well aware that markets can fail to achieve the goal of maximizing long-term wealth, and indeed they do… L’article When...
From Yoshua Bengio
Science and innovation in times of a pandemic
Mila’s COVI project has found itself at the centre of a public debate regarding the use of an app in the fight against COVID-19. While… L’article Science and innovation...
From Yoshua Bengio
Peer-to-peer AI-tracing of COVID-19
Social distancing works but in its simplest form it is brutal and economically very damaging. We have already seen how tracing and testing can greatly… L’article...12