AISN #8: Why AI could go rogue, how to screen for AI risks, and grants for research on democratic governance of AI.
Yoshua Bengio makes the case for rogue AIAI systems pose a variety of different risks. Renowned AI scientist Yoshua Bengio recently argued for one particularly concerning possibility: that advanced AI agents could pursue goals in conflict with human values. Human intelligence has accomplished impressive feats, from flying to the moon to building nuclear weapons. But Bengio argues that across a range of important intellectual, economic, and social activities, human intelligence could be matched and even surpassed by AI. How would advanced AIs change our world? Many technologies are tools, such…
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