Yoshua Bengio

Informal, yes.

But I quickly said, no, I don't want to do this.

because I wanted to work for a mission that I felt good about.

And it has allowed me to speak about the risks when ChatGPT came from the freedom of academia.

And I hope that many more people realize that we can do something about those risks.

I'm hopeful, more and more hopeful now that we can do something about it.

Yes.

Of course, I should have seen this coming much earlier.

It is only when I started thinking about the potential for the lives of my children and my grandchild that the

shift happened.

Emotion, the word emotion means motion, means movement.

It's what makes you move.

If it's just intellectual, it comes and goes.

All sorts of comments.

I think a lot of people were afraid that talking negatively about AI would harm the field, would stop the flow of money, which of course hasn't happened.

Funding, grants, students, it's the opposite.

There's never been as many people doing research or engineering in this field.

I think...

I understand a lot of these comments because I felt similarly before.

I felt that these comments about catastrophic risks were a threat in some way.