Yoshua Bengio affirms it: “We must slow down and regulate!”

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Chief AI Scientist of Meta, criticizes an “ obscurantist ” vision. He remains convinced that AI “can lead to a renaissance of humanity, a new century of Enlightenment ” . Beyond the simplistic oppositions ( that technical progress has always aroused ) , a third way is possible , according to researchers at the Distributed AI Research Institute . The urgency. To look into the “exploitation of workers” ( the first union was created on Monday in Kenya ) that drive AI, the “data plundering” that feeds these systems, the “explosion of false content”, and to slow down the “concentration of power” .



The AI ​​Act is already under discussion in Brussels . Across the Atlantic, the loan database White House brought together Sam Altman (OpenAI), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Sundar Pichai (Google) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) on Thursday, around Joe Biden, for a "frank" discussion on the risks linked to technology .No artificial intelligence without collective intelligence. We will have to trust in progress, on the model of the old dream of the early days of the Web, which we have just celebrated its 30th anniversary , by advocating an "open source" AI system.



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