AI ‘Godfather’ warns: We’re ‘creating monsters more powerful than us’
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is experiencing a moment of immense excitement, with its potential to both revolutionize and reshape our world. One of the key figures behind this AI revolution is Yoshua Bengio, often referred to as the “godfather of artificial intelligence.”
A Canadian computer scientist, Bengio has dedicated his career to researching neural networks and deep learning algorithms. His groundbreaking work has paved the way for the development of advanced AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude.
Bengio warns that we’re “creating monsters more powerful than us.”
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“Intelligence gives power, and whoever controls that power — if it’s human level or above — is going to be very, very powerful,” Bengio said in an interview with Yahoo Finance. “Technology in general is used by people who want more power: economic dominance, military dominance, political dominance. So before we create technology that could concentrate power in dangerous ways. We need to be very careful.”
In 2018, Bengio and two colleagues — former Google vice president Geoffrey Hinton (winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics), and Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun — won the Turing Award, also known as the Nobel Prize of computing. In 2022, Bengio was the most cited computer scientist in the world.
If this falls in the wrong hands, whatever that means, that could be very dangerous. These tools could help terrorists pretty soon, and they could help state actors that wish to destroy our democracies. And then there is the issue that many scientists have been pointing out, which is the way that we’re training them now — we don’t see clearly how we could avoid these systems becoming autonomous and have their own preservation goals, and we could lose control of these systems. So we’re on a path to maybe creating monsters that could be more powerful than us. – Yoshua Bengio
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