[N] New letter from Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and others: Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress

Signatories include Turing Award winners Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, as well as others academics and experts.

> In 2019, GPT-2 could not reliably count to ten. Only four years later, deep learning systems can write software, generate photorealistic scenes on demand, advise on intellectual topics, and combine language and image processing to steer robots. As AI developers scale these systems, unforeseen abilities and behaviors emerge spontaneously without explicit programming^[1](https://openreview.net/pdf?id=yzkSU5zdwD). Progress in AI has been swift and, to many, surprising.

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