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

So just going back to my previous answer, I was extremely concerned initially and anxious, and I was worried about the future of my children and my grandchild who

was one in 2023 when I started really focusing on this.

But what saved me from all that anxiety is deciding I would do something about it.

And by the way, you're doing something about it, so you should feel good about it.

I feel good, but also very frustrated.

Yes, but you can turn frustration into questions like, why is it, like the scientists they are, why is it that people don't get that these are crazy serious risks?

And it is an activity, you're trying to figure it out, which

lifts somehow, at least for me, a lot of the heavy burden of thinking about what can go wrong.

So turning from fear to action to avoid the problem, even if there is no guarantee, is extremely powerful.

Yes, and I think there is another reason which is sort of a very basic psychology that has to do with just an unconscious movement towards thoughts that make us feel good.

So this is actually something that psychologists have been studying quite well.

You can, you can, but there's this force, right?

And it's acting on a lot of people.

And for the most part, I think the people working in the companies that you're mentioning, it's not that they...

consciously make those choices that you think are wrong.

It's more like the brain works like this, that they will be biased towards feeling optimistic about how things will turn out, because that's what makes them feel good about themselves, about their work.

Now, I'm not saying this always happens.

So why did I change my mind, for example?

It's an interesting question.

I rarely use words like this.

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