Advanced artificial intelligence systems such as OpenAI’s GPT could destabilise democracy unless governments take quick action and “protect the public”, an AI pioneer has warned.
Yoshua Bengio, who won the Turing Award alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun in 2018, said the recent rush by Big Tech to launch AI products had become “unhealthy”, adding he saw a “danger to political systems, to democracy, to the very nature of truth”.
Bengio is the latest in a growing faction of AI experts ringing alarm bells about the rapid rollout of powerful large language models. His colleague and friend Hinton resigned from Google this month to speak more freely about the risks AI poses to humanity.