Geoffrey Hinton
Position: He warns about an existential threat, left Google to speak about the risks.
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Risk metaphor: AI is like a cute tiger cub that may kill you once grown; urged spending a third of compute on safety.
«Unless you can be very sure it's not gonna want to kill you when it's grown up, you should worry.»
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Shift: instead of controlling superintelligence, proposed building 'maternal instincts' — we need AI mothers, not assistants.
«We need AI mothers rather than AI assistants. You can't fire your mother.»
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At the Sana AI Summit in New York: we are making new beings and must ensure they care about us.
«We're making these beings, and we should be very concerned to make them beings that care about us.»
Yann LeCun
Position: He considers fears about the threat of AI to be exaggerated; what needs to be regulated is the application, not the research.
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Worrying about controlling superintelligence is premature; there's no design even smarter than a house cat.
«we need the beginning of a hint of a design for a system smarter than a house cat»
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Calls fears of AI's existential threat complete nonsense.
«You're going to have to pardon my French, but that's complete B.S.»