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Interim international scientific report on advanced AI safety, chaired by Bengio, is out

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Source: GOV.UKAlso reported by Interim report (PDF)

The interim International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, chaired by Yoshua Bengio and overseen by an expert panel from 30 countries, the EU and the UN, was published by the UK government on 17 May 2024. It found rapid progress in general-purpose AI but disagreement among experts about the pace of future progress and about whether humanity could lose control of AI with catastrophic results. The full report followed in January 2025, ahead of the AI Action Summit in France.

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Ministers meeting in Seoul four days later had a shared review of frontier AI risks commissioned by governments, which also recorded where the experts disagreed.

When
17 May 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0041
Who
UK Government, United Nations, European Union; Yoshua Bengio
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Summary by wheresthe.ai, from GOV.UK and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at GOV.UK

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Documents the source offers: document 1 (PDF), document 2 (PDF), document 3 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0041: “Interim international scientific report on advanced AI safety, chaired by Bengio, is out.” wheresthe.ai, 17 May 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/intl-ai-safety-report-interim-2024-05/ (source: GOV.UK).

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