Yoshua Bengio
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I wanted him to learn to read eventually.
And one day, he said, and I said, and he said, and I said, and then he said,
Whee!
Yes!
And then something wondrous happened.
He picked up the blocks again and said, Pa, Patrick, eureka!
His eurekas were feeding my scientific eurekas.
His doors, our doors, were opening to expanded capabilities, expanded agency and joy.
Can you imagine a world without human joy?
I really wouldn't want that.
So I'm going to tell you also about AI capabilities and AI agency,
so that we can avoid a future where human joy is gone.
My name is Yashua Bengio.
I'm a computer scientist.
My research has been foundational to the development of AI as we know it today.
My colleagues and I earned top prices in our field.
People call me a godfather of AI.
I'm not sure how I feel about that name, but I do feel a responsibility
to talk to you about the potentially catastrophic risks of AI.
To really understand where we might be going, we have to look back where we started from.