University of Toronto Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton and Universite de Montreal Professor Yoshua Bengio warned about the dangers of weaponized artificial intelligence, the Financial Post reports. Bengio said facial-recognition technology and other methods of surveillance could be used to identify targets and locations for drone strikes. Hinton said these AI capabilities need to be regulated; however, University of Guelph Associate Professor of Engineering Graham Taylor said that is not the case at the moment. “It’s an area that’s under development right now, but there’s no widespread regulation regarding the use of specifically AI technologies in the military,” Taylor said. (Registration may be required to access this story.) 
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