turing prize laureate yoshua bengio and gchq director anne keast—butler willjoin its newly—created externalgovernment would invest £100 million in a task force on al as part of a drive to make the uk a world leader in the rapidly growing field. live now to montreal in canada — and turing prize winner and member of the uk government's ai task force, professor yoshua bengio. thank you for being here on bbc news with us. as you approach this let me ask you to approach this from the perspective of this new technology providing huge potential opportunities or potential catastrophe?— opportunities or potential catastrohe? ., , , , catastrophe? both really because in order to catastrophe? both really because in orderto reap _ catastrophe? both really because in order to reap the _ catastrophe? both really because in order to reap the benefits _ catastrophe? both really because in order to reap the benefits of - catastrophe? both really because in order to reap the benefits of ai - order to reap the benefits of ai need to make sure that we can manage the risks. there is huge amounts of money being