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

And given the consequences of not finding a solution could be huge.

I think we need to diversify and have these kinds of investments.

So the short-term thing we are planning to do is to put out what we call the contextualization pipeline, which is the data processing pipeline.

which, by the way, doesn't require humans to identify what is a verified truth or not.

We only need to look at the data sources individually.

Is this a source that we consider verified?

And what category, what syntax could we use for this?

But that's a decision that can be done by engineers, not at the level of individual statements, but at the level of the whole database or whatever.

The second thing, of course, is a smaller scale guardrail or a guardrail obtained by fine-tuning an existing open-weight model.

So that could happen quickly depending on how many people we get and how fast we're able to deal with the engineering issues.

So yeah, these are the short-term things.

And of course,

To get the strongest guarantees, we wanted to advance the agentic scientist AI conversion fast, but we're also conscious that's the most ambitious one and might take more like years than months.

Yeah, I do.

I do.

I think they could, but they might not pay attention.

And I think the best thing we can do is to provide sufficient evidence for them to pay attention.

And also, in addition to my technical work,

I'm trying to improve public understanding and policymaker understanding of the greatest safety risks, because I think that will play a role in their decision.

So if the public becomes more concerned about safety, then there will be direct and indirect pressure on the companies.

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