TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Rafael MIRO and Mathiew LEISER "Montreal hub spearheads AI ethics"
A woman wearing a virtual reality headset takes part in the "Chom5ky VS Chomsky" virtual reality experiment, in which she chats with an AI to better understand the way it works, at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal on September 7, 2023. Rapid developments in artificial intelligence are causing concerns in Montreal where leading computer scientists such as Yoshua Bengio, a "godfather of AI," are grappling with the ethics of a potentially apocalyptic technology. Canadian AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio -- who in 2018 shared with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun the Turing Prize for their work on deep learning -- says he worries about the technology leapfrogging human intelligence and capabilities in the not-too-distant future. (Photo by Audrey PILON-TOPKARA / AFP)