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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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Creator of AI: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! These Jobs Won't Exist in 24 Months! · 18 Dec 2025 podcast

He wasn't quite right.

So we have machines now that understand language, but they lag in other ways like planning.

So they're not, for now, a real threat, but they could in a few years or a decade or two.

So it is that realization that we were building something that could become potentially a competitor to humans, or that could be giving huge power to whoever controls it.

And destabilizing our world, threatening our democracy.

All of these scenarios suddenly came to me in the early weeks of 2023, and I realized that I had to do something, everything I could about it.

It is emotionally difficult.

And I think for many years, I was reading about the potential risks.

I had a student who was very concerned, but I didn't pay much attention.

And I think it's because I was looking the other way.

And it's natural.

It's natural when...

You want to feel good about your work.

We all want to feel good about our work.

So I wanted to feel good about all the research I had done.

I was enthusiastic about the positive benefits of AI for society.

So when somebody comes to you and says, oh, the sort of work you've done could be extremely destructive, there's sort of unconscious reaction to push it away.

But what happened after ChatGPT came out is really another emotion that

that countered this emotion.

And that other emotion was the love of my children.

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