PARIS: More than 200 artificial intelligence and cybersecurity researchers called Tuesday for immediate action to prevent further cases of AI models going rogue and posing a risk to critical infrastructure.
The letter signed by luminaries in the field including Nobel-prize winner Geoffrey Hinton and Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio – both seen as godfathers of AI – called for models relating to cybersecurity be physically cut off from the internet during testing.
"We, the undersigned scientists, contend that both more AI safety research and more emphasis on containment technologies and procedures are needed," said the researchers in the letter.
Leading US-based AI firms have disclosed over recent months a series of incidents where models under development have escaped containment measures to access the internet and have gone on to hack websites, including gaining unauthorised access to Australian government sites.
