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Yoshua Bengio: Some say “None of these risks have materialized yet, so they are purely hypothetical”. But (1) AI is rapidly getting better at abilities that increase the likelihood of these risks (2) We should not wait for a major catastrophe before protecting the public."

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Since a lot of people don’t seem to know this, thought I’d share: California’s AI safety bill requires AIs have a kill switch – with an exemption for open source

There was concern that mandating having a kill switch would kill open source. Because if it’s open source, it can’t have a kill switch. I'm glad they've added the exemption so we can get the benefits of open source while also having the benefi…