Humanity faces a 'catastrophic' future if we don’t regulate AI, 'Godfather of AI' Yoshua Bengio says

Yoshua Bengio is one of the most-cited researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) He believes that AI could damage the fabric of society and carry unanticipated risks to humans.

He is the chair of the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI — an advisory panel backed by 30 nations, the European Union , and the United Nations .

There's still a huge gap between human intelligence and AI 's abilities, but it's not clear how far we are to bridge that gap.

Policy should be preparing for the case where it can be quick — in the next five years or so .

We can, however, build machines that have side effects that we don't anticipate, and we might even lose control.

Some AI researchers have voiced concerns about the danger of machines achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) YB: I don't think we've done what it takes yet in terms of mitigating risk.

There's a conflict of interest between those who are building these machines, expecting to make tons of money and competing against each other with the public.

We can't just let the forces of the market be the only force driving forward how we develop AI .