AI can lie, hack and blackmail: Yoshua Bengio on how to tame the "baby tiger" of tech
If AIs can think for themselves, what is to stop them doing bad - perhaps really bad - things?
Yoshua Bengio, one of a handful of people considered a "godfather of AI", says AIs are already displaying bad behaviours, including hacking computers and blackmailing humans.
He tells Radio Davos about his work aimed at taming the "cute baby tiger" that is likely to grow up to be a man-eating wild animal if we do nothing now.
Links:
LawZero: https://lawzero.org/en/publication/scientist-ai-safe-design-not-desiring
Ideas on the Move: Yoshua Bengio: https://www.weforum.org/videos/davos_yoshua_bengio/…
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