‘We’re losing control,’ says AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio

The Canadian computer scientist considered one of the founders of AI, Yoshua Bengio, told AFP that humanity is “losing control” of the technology and the world needs guardrails similar to nuclear arms controls.

Fears about the dangers of AI have intensified in recent weeks, as workers from major companies have resigned with warnings about potentially existential threats to human life if the pace of technological advancement is not checked.

Bengio is a University of Montreal professor who won the 2018 Turing Prize, computing’s Nobel, alongside Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as the “godfather of AI.”