A giant in the field of artificial intelligence has issued a warning to American lawmakers: Regulate this technology, and do it quickly.
That appeal came at a hearing in Washington on Tuesday from Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal and founder of Mila, the Quebec AI institute.
“I firmly believe that urgent efforts, preferably in the coming months, are required,” said Bengio, one of three witnesses.
The hearing before a U.S. Senate subcommittee came as lawmakers study possible legislation to regulate the fast-evolving technology, touted for its potential world-changing economic and scientific benefits as well as unfathomable risks.
It listed a litany of nightmare scenarios: Corrupted elections, with
