Two of the three godfathers of A.I. are professors based in Canada. One of them, Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto, recently left his job at Google in order to speak more frankly about the risks of artificial intelligence.
The other, Yoshua Bengio of the Université de Montréal, echoed the sounding of that alarm in a recent open letter urging a pause in the development of increasingly powerful A.I. systems.
He’s among the several high profile names, including Elon Musk and the Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who believe it’s time to pump the brakes, if only for six months.
