AI godfather Yoshua Bengio says the risks of AI should not be underplayed.
His remarks come after Meta's Yann LeCun accused Bengio and AI founders of "fear-mongering."
AdvertisementAdvertisementClaims by Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, that AI won't wipe out humanity are dangerous and wrong according to one of his fellow AI godfathers.
AdvertisementAdvertisement"If your fear-mongering campaigns succeed, they will inevitably result in what you and I would identify as a catastrophe: a small number of companies will control AI," LeCun wrote.
"Existential risk is one problem but the concentration of power, in my opinion, is the number two problem," he said.
Persons:
Yoshua Bengio, Bengio, Meta's Yann LeCun, —, Yann LeCun, Yann, LeCun, overstating, Andrew Ng, Geoffrey Hinton, Hinton
Organizations:
Service, Bell Labs, Google
Locations:
Bengio