A profile of AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, a co-recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, who says he supports regulating AI, including a ban on “killer robots”
MONTREAL — Yoshua Bengio is worried that innovations in artificial intelligence that he helped pioneer could lead to a dark future … Tweets: @marielamensch84 , @danbilefsky , @kenroth , @sebprovencher , and @tdietterich Tweets: Marie Lamensch / @marielamensch84 : “Dr. Bengio is acutely aware that his innovations risk becoming “Frankenstein's monsters.” As a result (...) he supports regulating A.I., including an international treaty banning “killer robots” or “lethal autonomous weapons."' @DanBilefsky http://www.nytimes.com/... Dan Bilefsky / @danbilefsky : Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian giant of artificial intelligence, told me about his love of Star Trek, his fears of “killer robots,” and his distaste for celebrity scientists. This week Bengio won the A.M. Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize of computing - https://nyti.ms/2CIB2zx Kenneth Roth / @kenroth : He won the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for computing based on his pioneering work on artificial intelligence. Now he worries that his work will be used to produce “killer robots” that select and murder their targets without a human to pull the trigger. http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/... Sebastien Provencher / @sebprovencher : “In ‘Star Trek,’ there is a world in which humans are governed through democracy, everyone gets good health care, education and food, and there are no wars except against some aliens. I am also trying to marry science with how it can improve society.” http://www.nytimes.com/... Thomas G. Dietterich / @tdietterich : Wonderful profile of Yoshua Bengio: http://www.nytimes.com/... He is both an intellectual leader and a moral leader of the field