Advanced AI as a Global Public Good and a Global Risk

In this essay, Yoshua Bengio argues that transformative AI creates three new categories of catastrophic risk—destructive chaos from weak actors, concentration of power among strong actors, and the loss of control to rogue AIs. Only if we recognize the global nature of these risks, he explains, and manage transformative AI as a global public good, will our societies be able to flourish alongside this technology in years to come.