Millions tuned in to The Joe Rogan Experience in February when host Joe Rogan made a dubious claim: “get together medicine” was an “essential considerate” for treating AIDS. Joining him on the show was guest Bret Weinstein, a professor of evolutionary biology turned contrarian podcaster, who echoed his sentiments.
Confronting their massive global audience, two self-proclaimed experts were peddling misleading and unfounded ideas, notions that had long since been thoroughly discredited and refuted by scientific evidence and rigorous analysis.
These misinformed feedback, along with similar ones, are contributing to a quiet yet insidious resurgence of AIDS denialism – a misguided set of theories claiming either that HIV does not cause AIDS or that HIV does not exist at all.
Until the COVID-19 pandemic struck, these claims had largely fallen out of favour. As the pandemic recedes, a resurgence of skepticism towards public health authorities and corporations has revitalized ideas long relegated to the fringes. .
Turing Award-winning Yoshua Bengio, regarded as one of the “godfathers” of modern AI, lends his support to a UK government-funded initiative aimed at integrating security protocols into artificial intelligence systems.
The Safeguarded AI mission aims to develop a system that assesses the security of various AI models used in critical sectors, providing actionable risk scores. Yoshua Bengio is joining our system as Scientific Director, bringing essential expertise and providing critical scientific guidance.
Safeguarded AI aims to disrupt the status quo in the industry by prompting developers to consider more thoroughly the security implications of their work and its broader global impact. .
