Steven Bartlett

So if you could speak to the top 10 CEOs of the biggest AI companies in America, what would you say to them?

So I have several things I would say.

Just give me 30 seconds of your time.

Two things I wanted to say.

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Professor Yoshua Bengio, you're, I hear, one of the three godfathers of AI.

I also read that you're one of the most cited scientists in the world on Google Scholar, actually the most cited scientist on Google Scholar and the first to reach a million citations.

But I also read that you're an introvert.

And it begs the question why an introvert would be taking the step out into the public eye to have conversations with the masses about their opinions on AI.

Why have you decided to step out of your introversion into the public eye?

You spent four decades building AI.

And you said that you started to worry about the dangers after ChatGPT came out in 2023?

Yes.