A major international report on the safety of artificial intelligence says experts can91裸聊视频檛 agree on the risk the technology poses 91裸聊视频� and it91裸聊视频檚 unclear whether AI will help or harm us.

The report, chaired by Canada91裸聊视频檚 Yoshua Bengio, concludes the 91裸聊视频渇uture trajectory of general-purpose AI is remarkably uncertain.91裸聊视频�

It says a 91裸聊视频渨ide range of trajectories91裸聊视频� are possible 91裸聊视频渆ven in the near future, including both very positive and very negative outcomes.91裸聊视频�

The report was commissioned at last year91裸聊视频檚 AI Safety Summit hosted by the United Kingdom, the first such global meeting on artificial intelligence.

The U.K. asked Bengio, dubbed a 91裸聊视频済odfather91裸聊视频� of AI and who is scientific director at Mila, the Quebec AI Institute, to chair the report. It was released ahead of another global summit on AI, to be held in Seoul, South Korea, next week.

91裸聊视频淲e know that advanced AI is developing very rapidly, and that there is considerable uncertainty over how these advanced AI systems might affect how we live and work in the future,91裸聊视频� Bengio wrote in the report.

The U.K. government said in a press release Friday the report is the 91裸聊视频渇irst-ever independent, international scientific report91裸聊视频� on AI safety, and that it would 91裸聊视频減lay a substantial role91裸聊视频� in informing the discussions in South Korea next week.

A group of 75 experts contributed to the report, including a panel nominated by 30 countries, the European Union and the United Nations. The report released Friday is an interim one, with a final version expected by the end of the year.

It focuses on general-purpose AI systems, such as OpenAI91裸聊视频檚 ChatGPT, which can generate text, images and videos based on prompts.

The report says the experts 91裸聊视频渃ontinue to disagree on several questions, minor and major, around general-purpose AI capabilities, risks and risk mitigations.91裸聊视频�

One of the areas of debate is the likelihood of 91裸聊视频渞isks such as large-scale labour market impacts, AI-enabled hacking or biological attacks, and society losing control over general-purpose AI.91裸聊视频�

The report outlines a number of risks, including the harm AI can cause through fake content, disinformation and fraud, as well as cyberattacks. It also flags the risks bias in AI can cause, particularly in 91裸聊视频渉igh-stakes domains such as health care, job recruitment and financial lending.91裸聊视频�

One potential scenario is that humans will lose command of artificial intelligence, and not be able to control the technology even if it may be causing harm.

The report said there is consensus that the current general-purpose technology doesn91裸聊视频檛 pose that risk, but some experts believe that ongoing work to develop autonomous AI, which can 91裸聊视频渁ct, plan and pursue goals,91裸聊视频� could lead to such an outcome.

91裸聊视频淓xperts disagree about how plausible loss-of-control scenarios are, when they might occur and how difficult it would be to mitigate them,91裸聊视频� the report says.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 18, 2024.

Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press