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

It's kind of something we can say that has been observed.

And you're right, the most interesting questions we care about are the questions in domains that are not these, not scientific or not math and computers.

And for these, we only get communication acts.

But the scientist AI training procedure is going to force the part of the system that produces explanations called the explainer to come up with

explanations that use this factual syntax rather than the communication act syntax for the explanations of communication act.

So if somebody makes a claim and you observe that somebody made a claim, then one of the pieces of explanation is going to be something that the claim is true or not.

And it's not like the...

Scientist needs to commit whether it's true or not, but it needs to commit on what's the probability that it's true or not as part of how to explain this.

And this will force the neural net to learn about the underlying explanations that are factual, even though it's not sure about them.

So it learns the...

the syntax and the semantics of statements in domains where there's no ground truth.

Now you might say, well, if there's no ground truth, how do we know that these are real or not some like made up stuff?

And that's because the most predictive models, as we see in science, for example, are the models that are expressed using actual properties of the world.

Like the way scientists build explanations about the world isn't

by combining statements of the form, somebody said this causes this to happen.

Now, in between those causal relationships, there will be latent variables that we don't observe directly.

Like what did the person actually think?

Or what are the intentions of the person?

And what kind of person is receiving that communication?

So these are actual properties of the world.

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