Yoshua Bengio tells UN the AI race is 'a product of choices', labs can slow down
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-26
AI godfather Yoshua Bengio pushed back at the UN against AI labs' favorite excuse. "The race is not a law of nature. It is the product of choices," he said, adding: "They've told us they would slow down if they could. They can." He also argued AI decisions are being made by a small group in a handful of countries. The sharer agrees nobody forces OpenAI or Anthropic to ship new models every few weeks, but draws the opposite conclusion: precisely because of that concentration, every other country needs to build its own AI.
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