Yoshua Bengio, like many participants at India’s AI Impact Summit, was running late.
By 6 p.m., the New Delhi roads were too gridlocked for the deep-learning pioneer, known as one of the “godfathers” of AI, to successfully make it to an event discussing the international AI safety report he’d chaired. Instead, he delivered his address to a group gathered at the Canadian embassy via a blurry video link.
