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posted by martyb on Monday February 04 2019, @10:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the train-an-anti-AI-to-counter-their-AI dept.

Deep Learning 'Godfather' Bengio Worries About China's Use of AI

Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian computer scientist who helped pioneer the techniques underpinning much of the current excitement around artificial intelligence, is worried about China's use of AI for surveillance and political control.

Bengio, who is also a co-founder of Montreal-based AI software company Element AI, said he was concerned about the technology he helped create being used for controlling people's behavior and influencing their minds.

"This is the 1984 Big Brother scenario," he said in an interview. "I think it's becoming more and more scary."

[...] The Chinese government has begun using closed circuit video cameras and facial recognition to monitor what its citizens do in public, from jaywalking to engaging in political dissent. It's also created a National Credit Information Sharing Platform, which is being used to blacklist rail and air passengers for "anti-social" behavior and is considering expanding uses of this system to other situations.

"The use of your face to track you should be highly regulated," Bengio said.

Bengio is not alone in his concern over China's use-cases for AI. Billionaire George Soros recently used a speech at the World Economic Forum on Jan. 24, to highlight the risks the country's use of AI poses to civil liberties and minority rights.

Also at Futurism.


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  • (Score: 2) by datapharmer on Tuesday February 05 2019, @02:55AM (1 child)

    by datapharmer (2702) on Tuesday February 05 2019, @02:55AM (#796456)

    Oh so you watched the movie “the circle”?

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  • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday February 05 2019, @05:18AM

    by Immerman (3985) on Tuesday February 05 2019, @05:18AM (#796496)

    I have not. Is it any good?

    I think I was first introduced to the idea by a David Brin essay on radical transparency, or something to that effect.