Yoshua Bengio urges frontier AI employees to reflect on whether their work is safe
Yoshua_Bengio · x · 2026-10-08
Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio published an op-ed in Transformer calling on employees of frontier AI companies to ask whether their work is truly leading toward a safer future. He argues such reflection is hard but time is running out, and action must be taken now — another prominent safety warning from a top researcher aimed inside the industry.
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