Yoshua Bengio

AI pioneers urge global body to contain rogue AI agents

Hundreds of scientists, including AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, published an open letter on Tuesday, Oct. 13, calling for an international body to set containment standards for advanced AI systems and track incidents in which AI agents escape…

AI pioneer Bengio urges governments to ‘wake up’ to existential threat

Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist widely considered one of the "godfathers" of artificial intelligence, is calling on governments and the public to "wake up" to the existential risks posed by AI, warning that the technology is slipping beyond…

Canada and Germany commit $300M to Bengio’s AI safety lab LawZero

Two of the most decorated figures in artificial intelligence research have issued urgent warnings this week that humanity is losing its grip on the technology they helped create, as governments scramble to respond to a string of AI incidents that…

UN panel warns AI outpacing global ability to govern it

A United Nations scientific panel released its first report on artificial intelligence on Wednesday, warning that AI capabilities are advancing faster than scientific understanding and government policy can keep pace, and that there are no guarantees the technology will remain…