“Those are things that aren’t a worry about the distant future; those are things that are coming now. “They’re very stupid, but they’re lethal and they’re autonomous,” he said of the explosives. The Canadian Armed Forces are now exploring how to use AI, with the air force conducting experiments, according to army Maj. Geoffrey Priems. Another is digital defects or built-in biases, said Graham Taylor, who heads a new AI ethics centre at the University of Guelph. Bengio was among 400 participants at a November 2017 forum that produced the Montreal Declaration on the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.

Source: thestar March 28, 2019 15:22 UTC