FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks - Yoshua Bengio

I have been hearing many arguments from different people regarding catastrophic AI risks. I wanted to clarify these arguments, first for myself, because I would really like to be convinced that we need not worry. However, sharing them and opening up the discussion more broadly might also be useful.

I have been hearing many arguments from different people regarding catastrophic AI risks. I wanted to clarify these arguments, first for myself, because I would really like to be convinced that we need not worry. However, sharing them and opening up the discussion more broadly might also be useful. As a preamble, although I have been interested in the topic for about a decade, I am not an ethics expert. In the past, I have discussed several kinds of negative social impacts and risks of AI, some already concretely producing harms, such as those due to the amplification of discrimination and bia

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