one of the signatories was yoshua bengio.is about what happens if we create machines that are smarter than us and have their own goals that are not aligned with our needs and could potentially harm us, just like a new species on earth that would be smarter than us might do. but the godfathers of ai don't always agree. professor lecun didn't sign the statement. every powerful technology can be used for good or bad. _ the existence of bad actors is not new. i i but very often the technology that l enables bad actors to do bad things is the same one that actually - enables to protect against them. a very simple example that exists today — - there are people who are trying to use social networks, - like facebook and instagram and others, to disseminate i disinformation to corrupt the political process, - the democratic process. the best protection we have - against all of those attempts today makes massive use of ai. even those at the cutting edge of ai research have been surprised at how quickly the technology has evolved. i cou