Yoshua Bengio

And as we build technology that yields more and more power...

it becomes a risk that this power is misused for acquiring more power or is misused in destructive ways like terrorists or criminals, or it's used by the AI itself against us if we don't find a way to align them to our own objectives.

I mean, the reward's pretty big then.

The reward to finding solutions is very big.

It's our future that is at stake.

And it's going to take both technical solutions and political solutions.

AI that is clearly not dangerous.

I don't see any reason to stop it.

But there are forms of AI that we don't understand well and could overpower us, like uncontrolled superintelligence.

Yes, if we have to make that choice, I think I would make that choice.

You would press the button.

I would press the button because I care about

And for many people, they don't care about AI.

They want to have a good life.

Do we have a right to take that away from them because we're playing that game?

I think it doesn't make sense.

I've always been an optimist and looked at the bright side.

And the way that has been good for me is even when there's a danger, an obstacle, like what we've been talking about, focusing on what can I do

And in the last few months, I've become more hopeful that there is a technical solution to build AI that will not harm people.

And that is why I've created a new nonprofit called Law Zero that I mentioned.