AI guru expresses fear over rapid development of artificial intelligence

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Yoshua Bengio, a Turing Award winner and a pioneer in the field of AI, has expressed his fear over the rapid development of artificial intelligence and the spread of its use so quickly.

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The AI guru wants governments to take ‘quick action’.

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The idea behind government action is to ‘protect the public’ from the rapid growth of AI.

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Bengio expressed his fears that can even destabilize democracy.

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Talking to the Financial Times, Bengio pointed out that corporations having access to such large language models without any security checks or monitoring.

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This is dangerous as nobody knows how they might end up using them, he said.

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He added, “Companies can rent access to ChatGPT . . . for example.”

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He concluded, “It would be important that this access be closely monitored so we know who is using those systems so we can track potentially illegal or dangerous uses”.