Yoshua Bengio urges safety-minded AI employees to quit frontier labs: 'Stop pushing humanity to the brink'
Just-Grocery-2229 · reddit · 2026-10-11
Turing Award winner and "Godfather of AI" Yoshua Bengio publicly urged employees who prioritize safety to leave frontier AI companies, saying: "Stop pushing humanity to the brink."
The interview, published by Transformer, features Bengio's sharp critique of frontier labs' safety culture and leadership priorities: if you genuinely care about safety, you shouldn't stay at companies racing ahead. It marks another pointed intervention from a heavyweight AI pioneer, following Geoffrey Hinton's warnings.
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