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

maybe allocate more of their resources to this question.

If the public is concerned and governments will be more likely to regulate or provide legal incentive, for example, through liability, maybe make them consider the safety investments that would be needed to scale the sort of thing I'm proposing, for example, as profitable even in the short term.

So yeah, I think in general for the safety issues, there are psychological barriers like cognitive biases that prevent people from being totally rational about what's going on.

And that's true in governments, but that's true in the general population and that's true within companies or even within academia.

All sorts of reasons that might explain why

we're not collectively taking the right decisions.

So there's the game theory aspect, but there's also like individual psychology.

For example, we all wanna feel good about our work, which means we're gonna maybe be biased towards thinking our work is going to be beneficial rather than harmful.

And that's going to be true of people in industry, that's going to be true of people even in academia working on AI, because they want to feel like their work is going to bring a better world, not destroy it.

And there are other factors, like some of the factors that we see with the attitudes regarding climate change, right?

So that if the risk isn't something that is in your face, like you look outside and you don't see like catastrophic climate change, you don't see robots killing people,

So you don't think too much about it.

You are much more concerned about your immediate worries.

And so I think that's the real challenge.

If we can improve the understanding at a gut level that people have of the magnitude of the risks that we're taking collectively,

things could change and they could change pretty quickly.

So if you think about how quickly governments shifted their actions in a radical way after the beginning of the pandemic, you can see that they can move quickly when they take an issue seriously.

And then that usually is going to be driven by whether the people take the issue seriously.

Yeah.

I would bring here a very important aspect of the whole discussion about safety and catastrophic risks.

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