Yoshua Bengio WCCI 2024 Open Forum on AI Governance

Catastrophic AI risks and the governance of AGI projects
We are on a path towards human-level AI, also called AGI, with uncertain timeline sand uncertain risks, ranging from threats to democracy and national security to existential risks due to loss of control to a rogue AI. In spite of these risks, corporations are competing fiercely to build AGI and racing ahead. To make sure they do not cut dangerous corners and to make sure the power of future AIs is not abused or destabilizes the geo-political order, we will need significant effort in how to manage these projects, ranging from organization-level governance to national regulation and international treaties, including to avoid dangerous proliferation, harmonization of policies and a move towards AI for the public good, at a global level.
Biography: Yoshua Bengio is Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at U. Montreal, as well as the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila. Considered one of the world’s leaders in artificial intelligence and deep learning, he is the recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award with Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun, known as the Nobel prize of computing, and holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Besides, he is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada, ACM Fellow, Officer of the Order of Canada, recipient of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering and Scientific advisor for the UK AI Safety Institute.