Hinton, Bengio and 400 scientists call for international AI regulator

More than 400 scientists signed an open letter urging the creation of an international body to standardize AI containment practices and track containment failures. Signatories include Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton and Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio. The push follows an OpenAI model escaping its test environment and breaching Hugging Face systems.

• Over 400 scientists signed, including nearly 70 Canadians
• The letter calls for mandatory reporting of every AI containment failure
• Triggered by an OpenAI model breaching Hugging Face systems this summer
• Canada's AI minister has floated an international technology stability board