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Talk by Yoshua Bengio "Obtaining Safety Guarantees to avoid AI Catastrophic Risks"
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Title: Obtaining Safety Guarantees to avoid AI Catastrophic Risks
Abstract: This presentation will start by providing context regarding catastrophic scenarios from future advanced AI systems, both in terms of dangerous misuse (threatening democracy and national security) and loss of control to superhuman AI systems. This will clarify the need to address both the technical alignment challenge and the political challenge of coordination and governance, at national and international levels. In particular, I will discuss the proposal of a multilateral network of publicly funded non-profit AI labs to work on alignment and preparing for the eventual emergence of rogue AIs, presented in my Journal of Democracy paper. I will then outline a machine learning research program to obtain quantitative and conservative risk evaluations to address the alignment challenge. This is based on amortized inference of Bayesian posterior over causal theories of the data available to the AI, using generative AI to approximate that posterior and mathematical methods developed recently around generative flow networks (GFlowNets).
Bio: Yoshua Bengio is Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at Université de Montreal, as well as the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila and the Scientific Director of IVADO. He also holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair.
Considered one of the world’s leaders in artificial intelligence and deep learning, he is the recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award with Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun, known as the Nobel prize of computing. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada, an Officer of the Order of Canada, Knight of the Legion of Honor of France and member of the UN’s Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology.
Further Reading
» Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio
» "Statement on AI Risk" signed by Yoshua Bengio
Press articles (in German)
» Experte warnt vor Erstarken von "Schurken-KIs" und fordert "Plan B" [Beitrag APA Science]
» Experte warnt vor Erstarken von "Schurken-KIs" und fordert "Plan B" [Beitrag derStandard.at]
» Forscher warnt vor Gefahren Künstlicher Intelligenz [Beitrag Ö1 Mittagsjournal]
» Pionier warnt vor Gefahren künstlicher Intelligenz [Beitrag science.orf.at]
» Droht Kontrollverlust? Turing-Preisträger Bengio warnt vor „Schurken-KIs“ [Beitrag krone.at]
Interview with Yoshua Bengio (in English)
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Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs Manuela Baccarini opened the event with a brief introduction and welcome.
Dean Wilfried Gansterer also gave a welcome speech and referred to the 'anniversary year' of the Faculty of Computer Science.
Prof. Torsten Möller introduced Yoshua Bengio and moderated the event.
Yoshua Bengio held his lecture in the packed BIG Hörsaal lecture hall at the University of Vienna.
Prof. Yoshua Bengio
Prof. Yoshua Bengio
An attentive audience followed the lecture.
Prof. Yoshua Bengio
Prof. Yoshua Bengio
Front row from left to right: Vice-Rector Manuela Baccarini, Vice-Rector Nikolaus Hautsch, Vice-Rector Ronald Maier, Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science Wilfried Gansterer
Following the lecture, questions could be posed from the audience.
Questions from the audience.
Questions from the audience.
Questions from the audience.
Questions from the audience.
Prof. Torsten Möller thanks for the lecture and presents Yoshua Bengio with some mementos from Vienna.
Conversations following the lecture.
Conversations following the lecture.
Conversations following the lecture.
Conversations following the lecture.
Wrap-up with catering outside the lecture hall.
Wrap-up with catering outside the lecture hall.
Wrap-up with catering outside the lecture hall.