Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian scientist hailed as one of the 'godfathers' of artificial intelligence, has issued a warning to American lawmakers: Regulate this technology, and do it quickly.
Yoshua Bengio, seen here in Montreal earlier this year, testified before a U.S. Senate subcommittee on Tuesday as American lawmakers weigh new laws to regulate AI.
"I firmly believe that urgent efforts, preferably in the coming months, are required," said Bengio, one of three witnesses.legislation to regulate the fast-evolving technology, touted for its potential world-changing economic and scientific benefits as well as unfathomable risks. He also suggested setting up secure-access international laboratories to research countermeasures against the criminal use of AI, and said social media companies should be forced to confirm users are human, as banks do with clients.
He noted the strict laws and severe criminal penalties against counterfeiting money; those deter people, Bengio said, so there should also be penalties for counterfeiting humans. A decommissioned intercontinental ballistic missile, seen here in 2019 in Sahuarita, Ariz. Among the many bills under consideration in the U.S. is one to prohibit use of AI in launching a nuclear weapon.
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