The scientific director of Montreal-based artificial intelligence institute Mila said rapid AI advancement presents a “danger to political systems, to democracy, to the very nature of truth,” and warned that Big Tech’s race to release new AI products has become “unhealthy.” (Financial Times)

Talking point: His sentiments mirror those from my colleague Martin’s interview with Bengio last month, when he warned that AI could be weaponized or used to overthrow governments in the absence of proper oversight. Bengio, who won the 2018 Turing Award alongside Canadian AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton and French computer scientist Yann LeCun, is the latest AI expert to raise concerns about the risks of developing highly sophisticated large language models. The reams of data feeding into such models, he said, should be audited and more closely scrutinized by regulators “so we can track potentially illegal or dangerous uses.” Hinton—who’s the chief scientific adviser for Toronto’s Vector Institute—raised similar concerns after announcing he was leaving Google early this month.