Yoshua Bengio

It's not going to be that difficult to sign a treaty.

It's more like, can I trust the other guy?

Are there ways that we can trust each other?

We can set things up so that we can verify each other's developments.

But national security is an angle that could actually help mitigate some of these race conditions.

I mean, I can put it even more bluntly.

There is the scenario of creating a rogue AI by mistake, or somebody intentionally might do it.

Neither the US government nor the Chinese government want something like this, obviously, right?

It's just that right now they don't believe in the scenario sufficiently.

If the evidence grows sufficiently that they're forced to consider that, then...

We could have hope, but I think each of us can also do something about it in our little circles and in our professional life.

And what do you think that is?

Depends where you are.

Average Joe on the street, what can they do about it?

Average Joe on the street needs to understand better what is going on.

And there's a lot of information that can be found online.

If they take the time to listen to your show, when you invite people who

care about these issues and many other sources of information.

That's the first thing.

The second thing is once they see this as something that needs government intervention, they need to talk to their peers, to their network, to disseminate the information.