Godfather of AI and 400 Scientists Want AI Models Cut Off From the Internet

More than 400 scientists—including AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, known as the Godfather of AI, and Yoshua Bengio, who won the Turing Award in 2018—want the most dangerous AI models cut off from the internet. An open letter published Tuesday asks AI labs to “airgap” cyber-capable models by default, which means physically disconnecting them from any outside network. “In the short term, strong sandboxing mechanisms including airgapping (disconnecting from the internet) should be used to provide high-assurance containment of cyber-capable AI models,” the letter reads. The letter had 450 signatures as of Wednesday, including Stuart Russell of UC Berkeley and Ron…