Yoshua Bengio Urges Frontier AI Employees to Confront Whether Their Work Makes the Future Safer
DKokotajlo · x · 2026-10-13
Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio published an op-ed in Transformer urging frontier AI lab employees to ask whether their work is truly leading toward a safer future: 'We no longer have the luxury of time. We must act now.' Former researcher Tim Hua amplified it, admitting he fell into motivated reasoning to keep doing work he loved despite possible harm.
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