UN AI experts reject doomsday rhetoric, urge separating facts from extrapolation
The UN scientific panel cooled AI-risk discourse at a UNGA forum; watch whether its briefings turn into concrete recommendations.
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Members of the UN's International Scientific Panel on AI publicly pushed back against doomsday-style AI risk rhetoric at a forum held alongside the UN General Assembly in New York, with co-chair Yoshua Bengio urging a line between established science and reasonable extrapolation.
Joelle Barral, a Google DeepMind executive on the panel, said researchers should focus on clarifying what is settled and what remains unknown, and that stoking fear does not help. Nobel laureate Maria Ressa said the debate has swung between existential alarm and dismissing AI risk altogether.
Bengio acknowledged that experts themselves still disagree on the extrapolation side. This is an IT之家 report citing AFP coverage of the forum — statements by participants, not an official panel document.