AI Sentience, Agency and Catastrophic Risk with Yoshua Bengio - 654

Today we’re joined by Yoshua Bengio, professor at Université de Montréal. In our conversation with Yoshua, we discuss AI safety and the potentially catastrophic risks of its misuse. Yoshua highlights various risks and the dangers of AI being used to manipulate people, spread disinformation, cause harm, and further concentrate power in society. We dive deep into the risks associated with achieving human-level competence in enough areas with AI, and tackle the challenges of defining and understanding concepts like agency and sentience. Additionally, our conversation touches on solutions to AI safety, such as the need for robust safety guardrails, investments in national security protections and countermeasures, bans on systems with uncertain safety, and the development of governance-driven AI systems. 🔔 Subscribe to our channel for more great content just like this: https://youtube.com/twimlai?sub_confi... 🗣️ CONNECT WITH US! =============================== Subscribe to the TWIML AI Podcast: https://twimlai.com/podcast/twimlai/ Join our Slack Community: https://twimlai.com/community/ Subscribe to our newsletter: https://twimlai.com/newsletter/ Want to get in touch? Send us a message: https://twimlai.com/contact/ 📖 CHAPTERS =============================== 00:00 - Catching up with Yoshua 04:26 - Bayesian learning and causal theories 07:13 - AI risks 13:34 - Human-level competence in AGI 15:13 - Power concentration 16:55 - Risks in LLMs 21:17 - Dangers of AGI 23:47 - Sentience and agency 25:13 - Relating agency and goal conditioning in RL 28:24 - Sentience 30:30 - Difference between sentience and consciousness 36:33 - Social impacts of AI 40:30 - Approaching risks from a research perspective 44:12 - AI safety solutions 49:26 - Letter on moratorium on AI research 50:35 - Knowledge gaps in AI 54:35 - Potential risks of unintended AI behavior 56:20 - Pointer and resources 🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES =============================== Flow Network based Generative Models for Non-Iterative Diverse Candidate Generation - https://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/pa... FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks (Superhuman AI) - https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/06/24/f... Pushing Back on AI Hype with Alex Hanna - 649 - https://twimlai.com/podcast/twimlai/p... The Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence - https://recherche.umontreal.ca/englis... My testimony in front of the U.S. Senate – The urgency to act against AI threats to democracy, society and national security - July 2023 - https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/07/25/m... Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter (Letter on Moratorium on AI Research) - https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/... For a COMPLETE LIST of links and references, head over to https://twimlai.com/go/654. 📸 Camera: https://amzn.to/3TQ3zsg 🎙️Microphone: https://amzn.to/3t5zXeV 🚦Lights: https://amzn.to/3TQlX49 🎛️ Audio Interface: https://amzn.to/3TVFAIq 🎚️ Stream Deck: https://amzn.to/3zzm7F5