Yoshua Bengio

We want others to look upon us as doing something positive for the world.

So there are these barriers.

And by the way, we see those things happening in many other domains.

And in politics, why is it that conspiracy theories work?

I think it's all connected.

Our psychology is weak and we can easily fool ourselves.

Scientists do that too.

They're not that much different.

And it is not a healthy race for all the reasons we've been discussing.

So what would be a more healthy scenario is one in which

We try to abstract away these commercial pressures.

They're in survival mode, right?

And think about both the scientific and the societal problems.

The question I've been focusing on is, let's go back to the drawing board.

Can we train those AI systems so that by construction, they will not have bad intentions?

Right now, the way that this problem is being looked at is, oh, we're not going to change how they're trained because it's so expensive and we spend so much engineering on it.

We're just going to patch some partial solutions that are going to work on a case-by-case basis.

But that's going to fail.

And we can see it failing because some new attacks come or some new problems come and it was not anticipated.

So