AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio has warned about giving technological rights to artificial intelligence tools, noting that they are showing signs of self-preservation and that humans should be prepared to pull the plug if needed.
In an interview with Guardian, Bengio compared giving legal status to cutting-edge AIs to granting citizenship to “hostile extraterrestrials”.
Bengio, a Turing Award winner, is popularly known as the ‘Godfather of AI’ along with Yann LeCun and Geoffrey Hinton, for their contributions to the field. However, in the last few…

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