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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowitz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Kicking off the day listening to @yoshuabengio.bsky.social's welcoming address at MILA's 2-day event on harms and risks of AI in the military. Here's info about the event: harms-risks-ai-military.org.

harms-risks-ai-military.org

Harms and Risks of AI in the Military

A cross-disciplinary workshop fostering an open and inclusive discussion on the harms and risks of using AI for military purposes

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowitz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

AI capabilities are on an exponential rise, with increased collection of data, progress in language, and a big rise in funding. He recalls Turing's word of caution around how humans might control AI systems "smarter than us," but hard to know when/if AGI will arrive.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowitz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Yoshua raises issues/concerns about the consolidation of power via AI and asks how can that be compatible with democracy and worries that the creation of new weapons could create geopolitical instability. What if AI allows for a geopolitical "power grab"?, he asks. Guardrails can be removed.

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