Yoshua Bengio

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #243 – 'Godfather of AI' Yoshua Bengio: "I now see a path" to safe superintelligent AI · 7 May 2026 podcast

Well, I'm going to put out this theory paper that shows that the non-egentic version, which could be used as the guardrail, has these mathematical guarantees and people can look at the conditions and whether they buy the math.

But I think in the coming year or two, what we need is,

is to accelerate that kind of effort.

So that's a lot of engineering.

And to make the demonstration stronger, we want to have more compute.

So any way that we can get access to that kind of compute is going to help to accelerate that research agenda.

Also, we need...

more research engineers, more researchers to work on actually building the system based on that recipe so that we can do it faster.

Now you might ask, and I kind of sense in your question, yeah, but what if it doesn't come fast enough, right?

And I'm gonna go back to my children.

It is not acceptable for me to just sit and watch a world where even a 1% chance that we all die is plausible.

I feel like even if there's no guarantee that a particular research agenda will work,

we should give it a shot given the stakes.

And given that we now have pretty strong theoretical assurances that this could work and that if we have the requirements for how the system is trained, then we can get these guarantees.

I think...

it would be irrational not to give it a shot, even if there is no guarantee, right?

Because I don't see right now a better path.

That's why I've decided to spend so much of my time, basically all the time, except for the time I spend on the policy questions.

How do we build this scientist AI and demonstrate that it is going to produce the honesty without losing capability?

But the other argument is the stakes being so high and the uncertainty about what's going to work being so high, it would be foolish to just put all of our money into one particular approach, which is to patch the current systems with monitors that we don't trust or other approaches that the companies are currently pursuing, which

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