Professor Yoshua Bengio, the co-chair of the UN's Scientific Panel on AI, says big tech companies are taking enormous risks with their development of the technology and there needs to be an urgent change of direction.
"Its shouldn't be the decisions of just a few CEOs or a few governments to figure out what's good for humanity," Professor Bengio told 7.30 from New York, where he is set to address the UN Security Council overnight.
The winner of the prestigious Turing Award for his pioneering work on AI said international agreement on safeguards is essential to secure humanity's future.
source - ABC News 7.30 Report....by Marina Freri and Sarah Ferguson