Yoshua Bengio

Because I have something to say.

I've become more hopeful that there is a technical solution to build AI that will not harm people and could actually help us.

Now, how do we get there?

Well, I have to say something important here.

Professor Yoshua Bengio is one of the pioneers of AI, whose groundbreaking research earned him the most prestigious honor in computer science.

Yes, I should have seen this coming much earlier, but I didn't pay much attention to the potentially catastrophic risks.

But my turning point was when ChatGPT came and also with my grandson.

I realized that it wasn't clear if he would have a life 20 years from now because we're starting to see AI systems that are resisting being shut down.

We've seen pretty serious cyber attacks and people becoming emotionally attached to their chatbot with some tragic consequences.

Presumably, they're just going to get safer and safer, though.

So the data shows that it's been in the other direction.

It's showing bad behavior that goes against our instructions.

And that is...

But let me throw a bit of optimism into all this because there are things that can be done.

Because I have to.

Because since ChatGPT came out, I realized that we were on a dangerous path

And I needed to speak.

I needed to raise awareness about what could happen, but also to give hope that, you know, there are some paths that we could choose in order to mitigate those catastrophic risks.

Yes.

Before ChatGPT, most of my colleagues and myself thought it would take many more decades before we would have machines that actually understand language.