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Intelligence gives power and who has that power is a question that really matters. It matters for our democracies or within each country but it matters for the geopolitical stability of the world.…

Yoshua Bengio ·Scientific Director ·Jun 2026

We should be doing intelligent design of these beings, not letting the invisible hand of compet economic competition design them. And all the companies are focusing on how can I make my chatbot…

Geoffrey Hinton ·Professor Emeritus ·Jun 2026

Well, as I understand it, they have a fiducial duty to try and maximize the profits for shareholders. um they're legally required to try and do that as opposed to legally required to not wipe out…

Geoffrey Hinton ·Professor Emeritus ·Jun 2026

If you have a digital AI, you can make many copies of it. They can all run on different hardware. They can each see different data. And so each of them, each individual copy decides how it would like…

Geoffrey Hinton ·Professor Emeritus ·Jun 2026

It was a combination of two things that made me realize how dangerous this stuff is. One was seeing the chat bots, particularly ones produced by Google before OpenAI that could understand why a joke…

Geoffrey Hinton ·Professor Emeritus ·Jun 2026

I believe they're already conscious. Yes. But I don't talk about that much because that puts people off from the other safety messages. So and the researchers actually believe that. So there's an…

Geoffrey Hinton ·Professor Emeritus ·Jun 2026

Tomorrow's inclusively prosperous India one in which the dreams of 1.4 billion Indians can be fulfilled will have to achieve five goals one digital tools everywhere two green energy and materials…

Mukesh Ambani ·Chairman & Managing Director ·Aug 2023

Reliance's new energy and new materials businesses squarely address this dilemma. Green energy is becoming affordable because its costs are already much less than those of non-renewables and they…

Mukesh Ambani ·Chairman & Managing Director ·Aug 2023

JFS has been conceptualized to fill a critical Gap in the financial services needs of a large section of the Indian economy mainly in the informal and the underserved sectors in rural semi-urban and…

Mukesh Ambani ·Chairman & Managing Director ·Aug 2023

To eliminate this digital divide in India once and for all we have recently launched jio Bharat a revolutionary Ultra affordable 4G phone priced only at rupees 999 Which is less than the price of a…

Mukesh Ambani ·Chairman & Managing Director ·Aug 2023

Today a 5G rollout is powered by jio's own 100 percent in-house developed 5G stack which aligns perfectly with our prime minister's Atmanirbhar Bharat. It features Advanced Technologies like…

Mukesh Ambani ·Chairman & Managing Director ·Aug 2023

We know what we want. We know what we need. And we know how to go about it. Don't forget that in January, we made two very important signings. Very important signings. Big credit to Hugo in being…

Khaldoon Al mubarak ·CEO ·Jun 2026

I consider him the best striker in the world. I consider him a Ballon d'Or winner hopefully soon. And I consider him someone that has the mindset, that winning mindset, that is the essence of this…

Khaldoon Al mubarak ·CEO ·Jun 2026

We are far from peaked. 18 years. I look at where the club was in 2008 and then I look at every part of these last 18 years. You know, Roberto Mancini brought that first Premier League title to this…

Khaldoon Al mubarak ·CEO ·Jun 2026

He changed English football. I say that with the utmost humility. But I believe that you look at the way the league has evolved, the teams have evolved here in the Premier League over these 10 years,…

Khaldoon Al mubarak ·CEO ·Jun 2026

What they need to do is to agree with each other on a set of principles about safety and like, careful deployment of AI. And they're already talking about this. What they are asking actually, is…

Yoshua Bengio ·Scientific Director ·Jun 2026

I think the default is going to it's going to continue on the same trend, but it could also saturate. And maybe some of these promises will not be realized. Um, the other issue is even if AI is more…

Yoshua Bengio ·Scientific Director ·Jun 2026

There's studies showing that I is now getting better than people at persuasion. Other words, making people change their minds. Imagine this. Apply to change political opinions. Change public opinion.…

Yoshua Bengio ·Scientific Director ·Jun 2026

Safety is a global question because a dangerous model, I mean, one that can be misused in dangerous ways, like like methods, for example, could be designed in one country, and then somebody in a…

Yoshua Bengio ·Scientific Director ·Jun 2026

No, that's the problem. We're building systems that we don't know how to control. They they they will behave sometimes against our instructions. And that is this lack of reliability is both a…

Yoshua Bengio ·Scientific Director ·Jun 2026

I must change learning. I must change K to 16 learning. I think this is one of the biggest opportunity for humanity in the next decade to come. Is that what is the most precious resource of our…

Fei-fei Li ·Co-Director ·Jun 2026

I really want to point out a lot of this sentiment happens when there is a vacuum of thoughtful public discourse. Right now, the oxygen, the air is all sucked into the polarized extreme of doomism or…

Fei-fei Li ·Co-Director ·Jun 2026

Robotics is going to be one of the most important revolutions in human industrialization. $6 billion is too small, right? If you look at self-driving cars investment. If you look at language models,…

Fei-fei Li ·Co-Director ·Jun 2026

The case for us is a 500 million year story, is that animal intelligence starts with seeing and moving in the physical world. That evolution began with us as animals, knowing what the world is,…

Fei-fei Li ·Co-Director ·Jun 2026

Better and credible expectations of future inflation could keep interest rates lower for longer and can be realized by achieving a stable public debt level, increasing the supply of energy,…

Lesetja Kganyago ·Governor ·Sep 2021

The MPC decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 3.5 percent per annum. The decision was unanimous.

Lesetja Kganyago ·Governor ·Sep 2021

Given the medium and long-term projections set out above, a weaker currency, higher domestic inflation and escalating wage demands present further longer-term upside risks to the inflation forecast.

Lesetja Kganyago ·Governor ·Sep 2021

We expect the economy to grow by an upwardly revised 5.3 percent this year despite the much larger negative effect on output than was previously estimated from the July unrest.

Lesetja Kganyago ·Governor ·Sep 2021

The domestic economy grew by 4.2 percent in the first quarter of this year and by 4.7 percent in the second quarter. The outcomes reflect better sectoral growth performances and robust terms of trade.

Lesetja Kganyago ·Governor ·Sep 2021

The one thing I learned through the Libra journey is that if you build any single point of failure then eventually you have a problem and lightning is the decentralized fault tolerant non-custodial…

Michael Saylor ·Former Chairman ·May 2024