Yoshua Bengio warns of runaway AI and deceptive agents

Yoshua Bengio is one of the founding fathers of modern AI. His research on deep learning made the AI ​​revolution possible. But for a few years now, Canada's most famous AI researcher has been warning about what he has unleashed.

AI that gets out of control and agents that turn against their creators – Yoshua Bengio believes such doomsday scenarios are possible. And until recently, many in the AI ​​scene found it mostly entertaining. But now more and more experts are saying: Let us take such dangers very, very seriously.

For the new episode of Handelsblatt Disrupt, podcast host Larissa Holzki met Yoshua Bengio in Montreal. She asked him whether he regrets his own contribution to the AI ​​revolution, why agents are suddenly betraying their developers and what he himself wants to do about it. “We are currently conducting a huge experiment on humanity,” says Yoshua Bengio, “and we don’t know how it will turn out.”