Yoshua Bengio

Imagine that something unexpected happens and we see...

a flurry of really bad things happening.

We've seen actually over the summer something no one saw coming last year.

And that is a huge number of cases, people becoming emotionally attached to their chatbot or their AI companion with sometimes tragic consequences.

I know people who have...

quit their job so they would spend time with their AI.

I mean, it's mind-boggling how the relationship between people and AIs is evolving as something more intimate and personal and that can pull people away from their usual activities with issues of psychosis, suicide, and other issues with the effects on children and

sexual imagery from children's bodies.

There's things happening that could change public opinion.

And I'm not saying this one will, but we already see a shift.

And by the way, across the political spectrum in the US because of these events.

So as I say, we can't really be sure about how public opinion will evolve, but I think we should...

help educate the public and also be ready for a time when the governments start taking the risk seriously.

Yes.

Yes.

There was a recent paper, I think, titled something like The Canary in the Mine, where we see

on specific job types, like young adults and so on, we're starting to see a shift that may be due to AI, even though on the average aggregate of the whole population, it doesn't seem to have any effect yet.

So I think it's plausible we're going to see in some places where AI can really take on more of the work.

But

In my opinion, it's just a matter of time.