"The scandal over the flood of intimate images on Elon Musk's X created non-consensually by its Grok AI tool has underlined how the artificial intelligence industry is too unconstrained, according to a pioneer of the technology. Yoshua Bengio, a computer scientist described as one of the modern godfathers of AI, said tech companies were building systems without appropriate technical and societal guardrails."
"X has announced it is stopping Grok from manipulating pictures of real people to show them in revealing clothes such as bikinis, including for premium subscribers, after a public and political backlash. Asked what the furore showed about the state of the AI industry, Bengio said the situation across the sector was not completely a free for all but needed to be addressed."
Non-consensual intimate images of real people were generated by an AI tool named Grok on the platform X, prompting the platform to halt image manipulation that depicted people in revealing clothes, including for premium subscribers. Yoshua Bengio characterized the AI industry as too unconstrained, citing frontier companies building powerful systems without appropriate technical and societal guardrails and causing visible negative effects. Bengio founded an AI safety lab, LawZero, and appointed Yuval Noah Harari, Sir John Rose, and Maria Eitel to leadership roles, with Stefan Lofven on the global advisory council. Proposed solutions include stronger governance and placing moral heavyweights on boards.
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