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Yoshua Bengio: AI鈥檚 risks must be acknowledged

James Copnall speaks to Yoshua Bengio, described as one of the "Godfathers of AI."

James Copnall, presenter of the 成人快手鈥檚 Newsday, speaks to Yoshua Bengio, the world-renowned computer scientist often described as one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, or AI.

Bengio is a professor at the University of Montreal in Canada, founder of the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute - and recipient of an A.M. Turing Award, 鈥渢he Nobel Prize of Computing鈥.

AI allows computers to operate in a way that can seem human, by using programmes that learn vast amounts of data and follow complex instructions. Big tech firms and governments have invested billions of dollars in the development of artificial intelligence, thanks to its potential to increase efficiency, cut costs and support innovation.

Bengio believes there are risks in AI models that attempt to mimic human behaviour with all its flaws. For example, recent experiments have shown how some AI models are developing the capacity to deceive and even blackmail humans, in a quest for their self-preservation.

Instead, he says AI must be safe, scientific and working to understand humans without copying them.

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(Image: Yoshua Bengio. Credit: Craig Barritt/Getty)

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