Yoshua Bengio: 'If You Prioritize Safety, Leave Frontier AI Companies'
thoughtpeddler · hn · 2026-10-09
Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio told Transformer: "If you prioritize safety, leave frontier AI companies."
It's public pressure on frontier labs' safety culture — in his view, staying inside is no longer an effective way to push for safety, and researchers should vote with their feet. The interview covers the gap between labs' safety pledges and actual practice.
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