‘Godfather of AI’ Yoshua Bengio says firms building powerful systems without appropriate guardrails

• Musk’s X to block Grok AI from creating sexualised images of real people

The scandal over the flood of intimate images on Elon Musk’s X created non-consensually by its Grok AI tool has underlined how the artificial intelligence industry is “too unconstrained”, according to a pioneer of the technology.

Yoshua Bengio, a computer scientist described as one of the modern “godfathers of AI”, said tech companies were building systems without appropriate technical and societal guardrails.