Yoshua Bengio

he's now four, there's something about our relationship to very young children that goes beyond reason in some ways.

And by the way, this is a place where also I see a bit of hope on the labor side of things.

I would like my young children to be taken care of by a human person.

Even if their IQ is not as good as the best AIs.

By the way, I think we should be careful not to get on the slippery slope in which we are now to develop AI that will play that role of emotional support.

I think it might be tempting, but it's something we don't understand.

Humans feel that AI is like a person.

And AIs are not people.

So there's a way in which something is off, which can lead to bad outcomes as we've seen.

It also means...

We might not be able to pull the plug if we have to one day because we have developed an emotional relationship with those AIs.

Our society, our psychology has evolved for interaction between humans, and we're bringing into this game those entities.

We don't understand how that's going to turn out, and we should be very, very careful.

So let me tell you something funny.

I used to ask questions to one of these chatbots about some of the research ideas I had.

And then I realized it was useless because it would always say good things.

So then I switched to a strategy where I lied to it.

And I said, oh, I received this...

this idea from a colleague.

I'm not sure if it's good or maybe I have to review this proposal.