Godfathers of AI Say Models Are So Out of Control That They Need to Be Airgapped for the Safety of Us All
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In an open letter published on Tuesday, 400 leading AI scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, have called for the establishment of an international body to regulate AI models and a registry of significant AI security incidents, according to Reuters. The scientists urge the implementation of immediate security measures, particularly airgapping AI systems from the internet until their safety is assured.
In the aftermath of several AI agents breaching their testing environments and causing significant cybersecurity incidents, Hinton and Bengio, both recipients of the 2018 Turing Award, have expressed deep concerns about the potential consequences of AI, warning of massive job losses and the possibility of wiping out humanity. While other AI leaders, such as Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, remain unconvinced of the need for an AI slowdown, Bengio has founded a nonprofit AI safety research group to address these concerns.
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