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Yoshua Bengio: AI is moving faster than our ability to govern it
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Yoshua Bengio: AI is moving faster than our ability to govern it

Artificial intelligence is advancing at an extraordinary pace, but are governments and society keeping up? In this interview from the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, pioneering AI researcher Yoshua Bengio discusses why today's AI safety debate goes beyond technical questions to broader issues of governance, public understanding, and international cooperation.

​Bill Dally, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio, QEPrize, The Mall, London.
GZERO AI

AI pioneers share prestigious engineering prize

On Tuesday, seven AI pioneers took home the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, a top award for groundbreaking innovations in science and engineering. They include Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, John Hopfield, Yann LeCun, Jensen Huang, Bill Dally, and Fei-Fei Li.

AI's existential risks: Why Yoshua Bengio is warning the world
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AI's existential risks: Why Yoshua Bengio is warning the world

In this episode of GZERO AI, Taylor Owen, host of the Machines Like Us podcast, reflects on the growing excitement around artificial intelligence. At a recent AI conference he attended, Owen observes that while startups and officials emphasized AI's economic potential, prominent AI researcher Yoshua Bengio voiced serious concerns about its existential risks. Bengio, who's crucial to the development of the technology, stresses the importance of cautious public policy, warning that current AI research tends to prioritize power over safety.