‘We may irreversibly lose control of autonomous AI,’ warn top academics

Open letters warning over AI’s risks are amassing — with top technologists and researchers sounding the alarm on uncontrollable development, pressing existential threats, and the lack of regulation. Now, just a week before the AI Summit in London, a new letter calls on companies and governments to ensure the safe and ethical use of AI. The signatories include a number of European academics, three Turing Award winners, and even so-called AI godfathers Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton. Not coincidentally, last …

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