‘We may irreversibly lose control of autonomous AI,’ warn top academics

Open letters warning over AI’s risks are amassing — with top technologists and researchers sounding the alarm on uncontrollable development, pressing existential threats, and the lack of regulation. Now, just a week before the AI Summit in London, a new letter calls on companies and governments to ensure the safe and ethical use of AI. The signatories include a number of European academics, three Turing Award winners, and even so-called AI godfathers Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton. Not coincidentally, last May, Hinton quit Google to freely speak about the looming dangers of artificial intelligence. To add to the dystopian atmosphere,…

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