AI safety crisis pushes regulators toward a Covid-style response, says Bengio
Renowned AI scientist Yoshua Bengio says public concern over AI safety is growing and governments may act quickly to regulate, likening the moment to Covid-era policy shifts after incidents involving OpenAI/Anthropic agents and a Royal Society open letter; Bengio’s LawZero guardrails project, funded by the Gates Foundation and Nvidia, aims to curb rogue AI behavior, amid ongoing debates over slowing development and accusations of regulatory capture.
