Top scientist wants to prevent AI from going rogue

Concerned about the rapid spread of generative AI, a pioneer researcher is developing software to keep tabs on a technology that is increasingly taking over human tasks.

Canadian computer science professor Yoshua Bengio is considered one of the godfathers of the artificial intelligence revolution and on Tuesday announced the launch of LawZero, a non-profit organization intended to mitigate the technology’s inherent risks.

The winner of the Turing Award, also known as the Nobel Prize for computer science, has been warning for several years of the risks…