Comment by Yoshua Bengio

First, we need true scientific independence from the companies which must be held accountable. This includes a common definition of AI incidents and a shared reporting mechanism.

This suggests pacing the advances: not training or deploying AIs without a strong safety case that convinces independent experts.

Ahead of deployment, we need more reliable evaluation methods and robust safeguards in order to appropriately test and control AI systems. We need far stronger regulatory oversight to restrict potentially dangerous technologies until we have sufficie...