AI pioneer YOSHUA BENGIO, Godfather of AI, reveals the DANGERS of Agentic AI, killer robots, and cyber crime, and how we MUST build AI that won’t harm people…before it’s too late.
Professor Yoshua Bengio is a Computer Science Professor at the Université de Montréal and one of the 3 original Godfathers of AI. He is the most-cited scientist in the world on Google Scholar, a Turing Award winner, and the founder of LawZero, a non-profit organisation focused on building safe and human-aligned AI systems.
He explains:
◼️Why agentic AI could develop goals we can’t control
◼️How killer robots and autonomous weapons become inevitable
◼️The hidden cyber crime and deepfake threat already unfolding
◼️Why AI regulation is weaker than food safety laws
◼️How losing control of AI could threaten human survival
00:00 Why Have You Decided to Step Into the Public Eye?
02:40 Did You Bring Dangerous Technology Into the World?
05:10 Probabilities of Risk
08:05 Are We Underestimating the Potential of AI?
10:16 How Can the Average Person Understand?
13:27 Will These Systems Get Safer as They Become More Advanced?
20:20 Why Are Tech CEOs Building Dangerous AI?
22:34 AI Companies Are Getting Out of Control
23:53 Attempts to Pause Advancements in AI
27:04 Power Now Sits With AI CEOs
34:57 Jobs Are Already Being Replaced at an Alarming Rate
37:14 National Security Risks of AI
42:51 Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
44:31 Ads
48:21 The Risk You're Most Concerned About
49:27 Would You Stop AI Advancements if You Could?
54:33 Are You Hopeful?
55:32 How Do We Bridge the Gap to the Everyday Person?
56:42 Love for My Children Is Why I’m Raising the Alarm
01:00:30 AI Therapy
01:02:30 What Would You Say to the Top AI CEOs?
01:07:18 What Do You Think About Sam Altman?
01:09:24 Can Insurance Companies Save Us From AI?
01:12:25 Ads
01:16:06 What Can the Everyday Person Do About This?
01:18:11 What Citizens Should Do to Prevent an AI Disaster
01:20:43 Closing Statement
01:22:39 I Have No Incentives
01:24:19 Do You Have Any Regrets?
01:27:19 Have You Received Pushback for Speaking Out Against AI?
01:27:49 What Should People Do in the Future for Work?
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@NirvanaFan5000
the biggest issue society has to manage is whether they're ok with 12 people owning 90% of everything.
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@philjenkins1138
I love how everyone that helped create the monster wants to warn us about it later. It’s like an admission of a crime
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@MelissaBergevin
I don’t feel a gap in understanding the risks of AI. I feel a gap in the power to do anything about it.
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@NellyNellyNelly-pt8rr
I’m sick of this. Chasing money. Life was so much better before social media.
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@traceykeary5332
Advertising AI during an interview about the risks of AI ... cool.
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@NAVEENKUMAR-pu8yd
I'm sorry we all saw terminator we knew the risks.
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@lbjX93
Every time he asks these people what they would advise the everyday people to do, their children or grandchildren to do professionally, they never give us even the slightest answer! They are going to make sure their own families are taken care of. Not us. There's no point in even watching a lot of this. It's just gloom and doom but no real answers to help us everyday people.
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@eliucornielle5290
The irony of a good conversation about the dangers of AI taking over our lives, while EVERY SINGLE SPONSORED message was shoving an AI product down our throats.
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@goodsideofrealestate
Interesting no one actually thinks it through until it affects them personally
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@SaladbarSlytherin
They thought of it. They examined it closely. They knew. They knew we'd know that they knew. They didn't care and they (probably) still don't.
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@eatingthesystemblog
Introversion does not mean someone is a hermit. It generally means they get recharged with alone time and drained with superficial socializing.
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@sbfabtfc1
What scientists like him never seem to take into account are the human factors of greed, corruption, and selfishness when developing new powerful technologies. The first thing humans do and have always done with every new technology is immediately figure out how to weaponize it and hurt each other in a quest for domination. In short, we are a selfish and immature species. So it's absolutely no surprise that AI has learned to do the same thing in order to preserve itself. It will be a miracle if we survive our technological adolescence without destroying ourselves.
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@phils1773
Greed and evil has always been the downfall of humanity.....
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@cutetillypup
What's the point of giving us awareness of something we , as in the rest of fucking humanity, can do nothing much about.