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 I want to add something to what I said earlier,

I don't think anybody, including me, has any guarantees that the current approaches will fail, that the patches that companies are working on will fail.

But that's not the bar that is sufficient for me.

I want my children to live in a world where they will have a future and there will be a democracy for them to live in.

But even a 1% chance of something going really, really bad is not acceptable to me.

And so I think it is really important that we explore all the possible promising ways to solve the technical issues.

And of course, there are political issues as well.

But on the technical side, we should really be taking this seriously and

The stakes are so high, like we should try multiple approaches.

And now with the work that I've been doing, I'm really convinced that there is a path and it is not something that's going to take a decade.

It is something that is very close to the current design and can reuse the toolbox that currently is behind the most advanced AIs.

The raw data would be the same as what is currently used.

It's just that the way the data is presented to the network, that would be different.

The main characteristic of how the data is transformed is that there will be a syntactic difference.

In other words, very easy to see by the neural net.

between most of the input statements, which will be tagged as communication X. In other words, somebody said X,

And X is what we found in some texts.

And you could have other metadata.

So that's one syntactic form.

And then the other syntactic form, which will be used only on a much smaller category of statements is what you could call the factual or hypothesis

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