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Making Sense with Sam Harris · August 12, 2024 · 80m
#379 — Regulating AI
Yoshua Bengio — Turing Award-winning AI pioneer — on why he now supports AI regulation. The same person who helped build deep learning now warns that the technology could pose existential risks without proper safeguards.
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Bengio: shifting from celebrating AI progress to warning about AI risk required moral courage. His colleagues see him as a traitor. But intellectual honesty demanded following the evidence, not protecting the field.
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Bengio: we can't control AI's capabilities trajectory — that's determined by compute, data, and competition. But we can control the guardrails: regulation, safety testing requirements, and deployment protocols.
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