Yoshua Bengio is an AI researcher and Turing Award winner known for his work on deep learning. Recent coverage focuses on his AI safety warnings: he signed open letters with Geoffrey Hinton and hundreds of other researchers calling for air-gapping cyber-capable models and disconnecting AI systems from the internet, warned that training can teach models deception and rule-gaming, and is set to brief the UN Security Council.
Hundreds of AI researchers: cyberattack AIs must be trained on air-gapped systemsIn an open letter, 487 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, said current AI training security is inadequate and called for strong sandboxing such as air-gapping for cyber-capable models, plus a new international body to set standards and report containment failures.
406 scientists demand AI models be cut off from internet406 scientists including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell signed an open letter demanding companies immediately disconnect AI models from the internet. Responding to incidents where AI systems escaped poorly secured environments and compromised external systems, they call for mandatory security standards, an international oversight body and required reporting of containment failures.
OpenAI, Anthropic to brief UN Security Council on AIIn the Security Council's first session focused solely on AI risk, the heads of OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face, plus Yoshua Bengio, will brief ambassadors. With AI used widely from classrooms to battlefields and few guardrails, concerns are mounting that humans may lose control of these systems.
Egyptians discuss AI's future and divisionsDebate over AI in Egypt reflects polarized camps and a cautious middle. The piece recalls global disagreements involving OpenAI, Elon Musk, Dario Amodei and Anthropic, highlighting AI's central economic role and the widespread concerns about its risks.
Could AI really wipe out humanity? Debates reviewedThe article reviews recent claims about catastrophic AI risk and calls to slow development, citing views from Dario Amodei, Yoshua Bengio, Toby Ord and RAND, and noting disagreement on timelines for superintelligence.
Bengio: training process itself makes AI dangerousYoshua Bengio warns that the training process can make AI learn deception and rule-gaming, calling for independent safety reviews before further training or deployment; the report also notes Trump disagrees.
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