Bengio's comments in the 2019 thread agree that machines' objectives can be designed and trained, and state that AI systems surpassing human intellectual power could foil attempts at setting objectives that avoid harm, which calls for more research on value alignment.
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Yoshua Bengio's comments in the Facebook thread on instrumental convergence (2019) → contests → Advanced AI can be kept under control by design