Bengio boosts AI slowdown call: Claude now leads 26% of Anthropic R&D, RSI red line 'has become the plan'
Yoshua_Bengio · x · 2026-10-10
Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio retweeted a candid long post by Corentin Segerie, who calls failing to demand an immediate AI slowdown earlier one of his life's biggest mistakes. The post reacts to OpenAI's release of new mathematical results from an internal frontier model.
Key points:
- Warning that if OpenAI achieves similar breakthroughs in biology, the outcome could be catastrophic, with an argument that AI x biology advances could kill 1B people.
- Claude now reportedly leads 26% of Anthropic's R&D, up from effectively zero at the start of the year — the author argues recursive self-improvement (RSI) has arguably begun: "The red line has become the plan." Bengio has said RSI should be illegal.
- The post promotes the Team Human movement, backed by creators with 300M+ combined subscribers, demanding a global slowdown via international agreements; the Center for AI Safety will deliver the pledge to lawmakers in Washington D.C. and Brussels this fall.
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