• Artificial intelligence that is smarter than humans being built like “agents” could prove dangerous amid lack of clarity over controls, two of of the world’s most prominent AI scientists told CNBC.
• Yoshua Bengio and Max Tegmark warned of the dangers of uncontrollable AI.
• For Tegmark, the key lies in so-called “tool AI” — systems that are created for a specific, narrowly-defined purpose, without serving as agents.

Artificial general intelligence built like “agents” could prove dangerous as its creators might lose control of the system, two of of the world’s most prominent AI scientists told CNBC.

In the latest episode of CNBC’s “Beyond The Valley” podcast released on Tuesday, Max Tegmark, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the President of the Future of Life Institute, and Yoshua Bengio, dubbed one of the “godfathers of AI” and a professor at the Université de Montréal, spoke about their concerns about artificial general intelligence, or AGI. The term broadly refers to AI systems that are smarter than humans.