PARIS: Artificial intelligence systems' growing capabilities, behaviours and performance in tests are throwing up "flashing warning signals" that should set policymakers moving, leading researcher Stuart Russell said Tuesday in Paris.
Speaking at a conference hosted by UN cultural and scientific body UNESCO and the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI), Russell asked attendees to "imagine, just hypothetically, that the world was engaged on developing something like AGI (artificial general intelligence) and that we put in place tests... and imagine if those systems started failing all those tests and behaving dangerously".
