ARTIFICIAL intelligence safety cannot be reduced to cybersecurity, monitoring or rules governing the release of increasingly powerful models, according to Yoshua Bengio, one of the pioneers of modern deep learning, who warned that the more difficult problem is what happens when an AI system becomes capable of pursuing goals that humans did not intend. The issue was at the center of “Governing at the Speed of AI,” an invitation-only meeting organized by AI Safety Connect at UN Headquarters during the 81st UN General Assembly. About 300 heads of state, ministers, diplomats, technology executives and researchers were invited to the gathering,…