Yoshua Bengio
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard 7 May
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I think they should invest a little bit more of their research to designing experiments, illustrating not just the risks, but trying to undo some of the wrong beliefs that people have about AI.
So let me be a bit more clear.
A lot of people don't actually believe that it's possible to have machines that have goals that we didn't choose.
But that is the scientific reality now.
There is no question.
But the vast majority of people have a gut feeling, oh, they can't be conscious or some other excuse, or it won't be possible to build machines like us.
There are many things that people will say, but actually don't hold water.
And so I think there's a real opportunity here to educate the public and the policymakers, realize that, hey, we are building agents that have their own goals, and we can't be sure that those goals, right now, we can't be sure that those goals are going to be aligned with what we want or go against our safety instructions.
as a very simple message, but I don't think- Even that hasn't broken through.
The data, like doing it well, doing it in a way that can't be easily put into question would help a lot the public debate.
And it has to be done in ways that the general public who's not an expert, who's not going to read the system cards is going to actually understand.
Yeah.
We need to set it up so that clearly the AI is not responding to a request, for example, to escape our control or do something bad that it's not supposed to do.
And I think if the experiment is something that can be translated in simple words, simple analogies that people understand, it'll be much more convincing.
I don't feel like I'm an expert on answering your question.
Anthropic has been doing a lot of work along those lines, but
I think all the leading companies should be investing in this because it's investing in changing the game.
Like the problem is they're in this competition game where they're stuck, even with good intention.
And in order to change the game, they have to influence the understanding, which is biased and wrong right now, of the risks in the public.
And policymakers are just like a representation of the public.
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