Yoshua Bengio likens AI race to a car speeding blindly into fog with his children aboard
birchlse · x · 2026-09-25
Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio described the current AI race as "a car speeding blindly into dense fog," saying his children and grandson are in the car with him: "I worry about them. I worry about their future. I'm no different from any other parent or grandparent." A notable big-picture statement on AI risk from a top researcher.
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