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.
- 2026
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.
Yoshua Bengio, in a Financial Times column (Oct 2026), argued that treating AI misbehavior as only a security problem to be sandboxed is mistaken.
- 2025
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.
The ObserverChatbots are afraid of dying, warns the godfather of AI
- 2024
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.
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.
importai.substack.comImport AI 379: FlashAttention-3; Elon's AGI datacenter; distributed training.
- 2023
Yoshua Bengio, AI pioneer, told the BBC in May 2023 about the emotional toll of realizing the risks of the technology he helped create.
bbc.comAI 'godfather' Yoshua Bengio feels 'lost' over life's work - BBC