Amid Growing Fears of Rogue Al, Expert Urges Governments to "Bring This to a

Is Al superintelligence inevitable? Al safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn't have to be. Krueger, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and founder of the nonprofit Evitable, warns that "we need to mitigate the risk of extinction" with regulation and moratoriums to halt the development of Al's computational power and complexity, which he says is progressing at a rate much faster than current levels of human supervision can manage. Public statements from Al companies that their models have circumvented test constraints and broken into other systems are "what we should expect to happen with the way that we're building Al, with how little we understand it and how primitive our techniques are for controlling it," Krueger says. "We just don't know how to build it safely. End of story." Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday