Munk Debate on Artificial Intelligence | Bengio & Tegmark vs. Mitchell & LeCun

Yoshua Bengio, Max Tegmark, Melanie Mitchell, and Yann LeCun debate whether artificial intelligence research and development poses an existential threat to humanity.

PROPOSITION "AI research and development poses an existential threat." SUMMARY With the debut of ChatGPT, the AI once promised in some distant future seems to have suddenly arrived with the potential to reshape our working lives, culture, politics and society. For proponents of AI, we are entering a period of unprecedented technological change that will boost productivity, unleash human creativity and empower billions in ways we have only begun to fathom. Others think we should be very concerned about the rapid and unregulated development of machine intelligence. For their detractors, AI applications like ChatGPT herald a brave new world of deep fakes and mass propaganda that could dwarf anything our democracies have experienced to date. Immense economic and political power may also concentrate around the corporations who control these technologies and their treasure troves of data. Finally, there is an existential concern that we could, in some not-so-distant future, lose control of powerful AIs who, in turn, pursue goals that are antithetical to humanity’s interests and our survival as a species. DEBATERS • Yoshua Bengio: Full Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute (yoshuabengio.org) • Max Tegmark: Professor doing AI and physics research at MIT as part of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence & Fundamental Interactions and the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (physics.mit.edu/faculty/max-tegmark/) • Melanie Mitchell: Professor at the Santa Fe Institute (melaniemitchell.me) • Yann LeCun: VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Silver Professor at NYU affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences & the Center for Data Science (yann.lecun.com) RESULTS munkdebates.com/debates/artificial-intelligence #AI #ML #Risk