Yoshua Bengio

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2,216 appearances 5 recordings 5 series first heard Oct 2018 last heard 7 May

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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 then it could feed itself.

So if you're concerned about something and read more about it, and now you're entering into a phase where you can digest more of the things that go against your prior beliefs about humans and machines, for example.

I guess events may draw a lot more attention to this problem, for better or worse.

So I often get the question, are you optimistic or pessimistic?

both about the choices I've made, how I spend my time, but more generally about our future and the risks with AI.

And my answer is always, it doesn't matter if I'm optimistic or pessimistic.

Actually, I'm a naturally optimistic person.

But what matters is,

whatever each of us can do to shift the needle, even a little bit.

And for most of us, it's going to be a little bit.

Each of us has some skills or something to bring to the table.

I'm like a machine learning researcher, so I'm focusing a lot of my energy on this, on how those skills can be put to use here.

But

even every individual citizen, especially in a democracy, can influence the government.

They can talk to each other more about it.

That's how you start thinking through and questioning your own beliefs.

You can influence your representatives and so on.

This has worked for many other social issues and political issues in the past, and it can again.

So yeah, we should go back to

feel good about our actions by choosing our actions towards like shifting needle, even if there's no guarantee that it's going to work.

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