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Big Tech’s AI is trained to act and persuade. Mila is building one to be honest – and serve as a guardrail for other systems
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Jonathan Barry is the director of policy in the office of Prof. Yoshua Bengio at Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute.

Big Tech’s AI is trained to act and persuade. Mila is building one to be honest – and serve as a guardrail for other systems

Big Tech’s AI is trained to act and persuade. Mila is building one to be honest – and serve as a guardrail for other systems

Big Tech’s AI is trained to act and persuade. Mila is building one to be honest – and serve as a guardrail for other systems