More legislation needed to reign in AI, expert says

With governments and businesses calling for oversight into the future of artificial intelligence, at least one expert in the sector believes the current safeguards fail to consider the many potential harms of AI.

Yoshua Bengio, a professor at Université de Montréal and founder and scientific director of Mila and IVADO institutes, said the current proposed regulations focus on privacy, but miss the manipulation concerns many experts have.

“We have reached an important milestone in the capability of AI with machines that understand language and I think a lot of people – including myself – are starting to be concerned,” he told BNN Bloomberg Tuesday.

“We’re not there yet in order to minimize the potential harms and risks that come with such power.”