AI could have catastrophic consequences is Canada ready? [Video]

Nations — Canada included — are running out of time to design and implement comprehensive safeguards on the development and deployment of advanced artificial intelligence systems, a leading AI safety company warned this week.

In a worst-case scenario, power-seeking superhuman AI systems could escape their creators’ control and pose an “extinction-level” threat to humanity, AI researchers wrote in a report commissioned by the U.S. Department of State entitled Defence in Depth: An Action Plan to Increase the Safety and Security of Advanced AI.

The department insists the views the authors expressed in the report do not reflect the views of the U.S. government.

But the report’s message is bringing the Canadian government’s actions to date on AI safety and regulation back into the spotlight — and one Conservative MP is warning the government’s proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act is already out of date.

AI vs. everyone 

The U.S.-based company Gladstone AI, which advocates for the responsible development of safe artificial intelligence, produced …