Godfather of AI Says We’re Barreling Straight Toward Human Extinction
University of Montreal professor Yoshua Bengio is considered one of the “godfathers of AI,” whose academic work set the groundwork for today’s red hot AI arms race. He’s also the founder and scientific adviser of Mila, an AI research institute in Quebec, and recently launched a nonprofit research organization called LawZero, where he plans on developing ways to build safe AI models. Now, in a new conversation with the Wall Street Journal, Bengio didn’t mince his words: at this rate, he believes