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 ‘ class=”backlink” target=”_blank” href=”https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/godfather-of-ai-warns-software-engineering-jobs-could-shrink-sharply-in-2026-there-ll-be-very-few-people-needed-11767001271045.html” data-vars-page-type=”story” data-vars-link-type=”Manual” data-vars-anchor-text=”Godfather of AI”>Godfather of AI’ along with class=”backlink” target=”_blank” href=”https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/metas-ai-chief-scientist-yann-lecun-set-to-exit-to-launch-new-ai-startup-report-11762871608811.html” data-vars-page-type=”story” data-vars-link-type=”Manual” data-vars-anchor-text=”Yann LeCun”>Yann LeCun and class=”backlink” target=”_blank” href=”https://www.livemint.com/ai/artificial-intelligence/many-people-in-big-companies-are-downplaying-the-ai-risk-warns-father-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-11753717225765.html” data-vars-page-type=”story” data-vars-link-type=”Manual” data-vars-anchor-text=”Geoffrey Hinton”>Geoffrey Hinton, for their contributions to the field. However, in the last few…
