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Many have raised the alarm over the inherent risks in Artificial Intelligence over recent years, even going so far as to suggest out of control computer intelligences could lead to the very extinction of the human race.

In the UK, world leaders and leading big tech company executive have gathered for a major AI summit to try to build an international consensus on the future of the technology with governmental leaders from the major industrialised countries.

Among the 100 people invited to this select gathering was Yoshua Bengio - the scientific director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms. He鈥檚 also known as one of the three 鈥淕odfathers of AI鈥� who jointly won the ACM Turing award 鈥� the computer science equivalent of the Nobel prize 鈥� in 2018 for his work on AI.

大象传媒 Newsday asked him what he expects from this conference:

"There will be actors who will develop AI for nefarious purposes [disinformation, cyber-attacks, bio-attacks] ...so we also need governments to start owning those capabilities so they can defend the public.

"We don't know how to design these AI systems so that they will do what we intend... so that they will be aligned with our values.

"Until we figure out that one, to make them safe, we have to be very careful."

(Pic: Google, Microsoft and Alphabet logos and Artificial Intelligence are seen in this illustration; Credit: Reuters)

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