AI godfather Yoshua Bengio urges safety-minded researchers to leave frontier AI labs
birchlse · x · 2026-10-10
Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher, published an open letter on Transformer addressed to researchers he trained, stating: 'If you truly prioritize safety, it is time for you to leave frontier AI companies.' He calls on lab employees to reflect on their role in accelerating AI — a rare public exhortation from a Turing Award winner.
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