Expert Yoshua Bengio says independent oversight needed as advances in technology accelerate
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Companies developing powerful artificial intelligence systems must have independent board members representing the “interests of society”, according to an expert regarded as one of the modern godfathers of the technology.
Yoshua Bengio, a co-winner of the 2018 Turing Award – referred to as the “Nobel prize of computing” – said AI firms must have oversight from members of the public, as advances in the technology accelerate rapidly.
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