Yoshua Bengio

And by the way, besides the technical problem, there may be also a problem of incentives for companies because they want user engagement, just like with social media.

But now getting user engagement is going to be a lot easier if you have this positive feedback that you give to people and they get emotionally attached, which didn't really happen before.

with the social media.

I mean, we got hooked to social media, but not developing a personal relationship with our phone, right?

But it's happening now.

I would say, step back from your work, talk to each other, and let's see if together we can solve the problem.

Because if we are stuck in this competition, we're going to take huge risks that are not good for you, not good for your children.

But there is a way.

And if you start by being honest about the risks in your company, with your government, with the public, we are going to be able to find solutions.

I am convinced that there are solutions, but it has to start from a place where we acknowledge the uncertainty and the risks.

I don't know about him personally, but clearly all the leaders of AI companies are under a huge pressure right now.

There's a big financial risk that they're taking.

And they naturally want their company to succeed.

I just hope that they realize that this is a very short-term view and...

They also have children.

They also, in many cases, I think most cases, they want the best for humanity in the future.

One thing they could do is invest massively some fraction of the wealth that they're bringing in to develop better technical and societal guardrails to mitigate those risks.

One is there is a market mechanism to handle risk.

It's called insurance.

It's plausible that we'll see more and more lawsuits against the companies that are developing or deploying AI systems that cause different kinds of harm.