Top Techies Warn That AI Poses Big Risks If Not Controlled

Elon Musk joins top tech leaders at the first ever Artificial Intelligence summit at Bletchley Park in UK. With more than 25 countries attending the summit, leaders have warned the rapid development of AI poses an existential threat to the world if not controlled. This has sparked a race by governments and international institutions to design safeguards and regulation. Listen to what some of the biggest names in AI have to say. ELON MUSK, CEO, TESLA (BT\0211\MUSK-INTERVIEW.MP4) (And here we are for the first time really in human history with something that's going to be far more intelligent than us. So it's not clear to me we can actually control such a thing, but I think we can aspire to guide it in a direction that's beneficial to humanity. But I do think it's one of the existential risks that we're facing, potentially the most pressing one. FLASH "I don't know what necessarily the fair rules are, but you've got to start with insight before you do oversight.) YOSHUA BENGIO, 'GODFATHER OF AI' (BT\0211\TECH LEADERS ON AI.MP4 – SECOND LAST BITE) (One message that I think needs to be heard and discussed more is the limits of the science regarding the safety of AI systems. Right now we don't know how to build and AI system that will be behaving as intended and can be safe and we don't know hot to trust those systems to make sure they are safe and this is a m major problem because we are building them and we are wasting the competition between companies and countries so we should agree at an international level that we need to put the bar higher, that companies have to demonstrate you know scientifically sound these things are sound before they are built.) POPPY GUSTAFSSON, CEO, DARKTRACE (BT\0211\TECH LEADERS ON AI.MP4 – LAST BITE) (The key things is that collaboration is essential. Like, you can't have your nationalistic identity playing out in your attitude towards this because AI isn't something that sits within a particular country or boundary like it is pervasive, we're all operating in a global supply chains and businesses. So, that pieces really come through the idea that there does need to be a level of collaboration, but then will say the fact that you've got to have the public sector and the private sector working hand in hand, the public sector tends to be more mindful and cognisant obviously around the governance structure and what that might look like, whereas the business in the private side and tends to be more responsible for the actual building of the technology, as you would expect.)