Nobel laureates Geoffrey Hinton in physics and Demis Hassabis in chemistry, awarded for discoveries linked to artificial intelligence, insisted on Saturday on the need to properly regulate this technology.
“It is important that the regulations are made correctly,” said Briton Demis Hassabis, rewarded for unlocking the secrets of proteins, using AI and IT, at a press conference in Stockholm.
“It’s the hardest thing right now because it’s such a fast-changing technology,” he added. For him, it is a question of society. “It’s about knowing what we want to use these systems for, how we want to deploy them and ensure that all of humanity benefits from what these systems can do” while ensuring that actors do not repurpose these tools for harmful purposes, he added.
Lethal autonomous weapons
Considered one of the founding fathers of AI, British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton often sounds the alarm about this technological revolution. “I wish I had thought about safety sooner,” he admitted on Saturday. According to him, in the short term, one of the dangers of AI is the development of lethal autonomous weapons.
“Governments are unwilling to self-regulate when it comes to lethal autonomous weapons and an arms race is underway between major arms suppliers like the United States, China, Russia, Great Britain, Israel, he lamented.
Demis Hassabis recommends “rapid and flexible” regulations in order to understand technological developments and adapt quickly.
In particular, it plans to rely on regulations in already regulated areas such as health care and transport.
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