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

So one factor when thinking about which arguments work,

is how much time you're able to spend with the other person to explain those things.

So if you're going to just talk to the public at large through a few messages, you want people to change their mind very much on foundations of their beliefs about humans and machines, for example.

And so the only way you can catch their attention is to talk about things that they are already preoccupied about.

They're this close to their immediate concerns, like jobs, like the effect of deploying AI on children and things like this.

We can see that this is like something that has emotional valence for many people.

So we do need to talk about those things.

But of course,

We may end up with regulation or government intervention that deals with this, but doesn't deal with the more serious problems we've discussed.

And for this, unfortunately, it takes more work.

It's not enough to just write a paper in a newspaper or something like this, or even be interviewed at the evening news, because I've done these things.

Yeah.

The problem's not solved, yeah.

So where it's working is when you can spend enough time almost one-on-one with a person, like hours.

So there can be a dialogue where you can show them that their preconceived ideas actually don't hold water, that there is data, that there is evidence, that these can be really dangerous.

but it's not something that happens quickly and easily, unfortunately.

I mean, there are exceptions.

So there's somehow a minority of people who get it quickly, but the vast majority doesn't.

There is a sense in which things could get better quickly.

if we are able to catch a little bit of the attention of people, then they will read more or listen more to the discussions around AI and the risks.

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