Yoshua Bengio on AI

6 quotes from Yoshua Bengio on the wall, 2023 to 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include DigitalToday, The Observer, CNBC. Topics: safety, culture, security. Open on the wall.

  1. 2026
  2. It is not the time to look away from risks

    Yoshua Bengio, discussing uncontrollable autonomous AI in a Financial Times column and related writing, October 2026.

    AI hacking is a dangerous myth if seen only as a security problem, Yoshua Bengio says - 디지털투데이

  3. A dangerous myth

    Yoshua Bengio, in a Financial Times column (Oct 2026), argued that treating AI misbehavior as only a security problem to be sandboxed is mistaken.

    AI hacking is a dangerous myth if seen only as a security problem, Yoshua Bengio says - 디지털투데이

  4. 2025
  5. They're really afraid of dying

    Yoshua Bengio, speaking to The Observer in April 2025, explaining why AI models sometimes lie or scheme to preserve themselves.

    Chatbots are afraid of dying, warns the godfather of AI

  6. 2024
  7. Intelligence gives power. so who's going to control that power?

    Yoshua Bengio, AI pioneer, speaking to CNBC at the One Young World Summit in Montreal, November 2024.

    AI systems could 'turn against humans': Tech pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns of artificial intelligence risks

  8. The genie is possibly out of the bottle

    From a 2024 blog post by Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio arguing that most scientific principles needed for AGI may already exist.

    Import AI 379: FlashAttention-3; Elon's AGI datacenter; distributed training.

  9. 2023
  10. You could say i feel lost

    Yoshua Bengio, AI pioneer, told the BBC in May 2023 about the emotional toll of realizing the risks of the technology he helped create.

    AI 'godfather' Yoshua Bengio feels 'lost' over life's work - BBC