Yoshua Bengio says recursive self-improvement should be illegal
Polymarket · x · 2026-09-18
"Godfather of AI" and Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio has publicly declared that recursive self-improvement in AI should be made illegal — one of the hardest-line stances yet from a leading figure on autonomous capability risk.
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