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AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner
It is really important, given the stakes, that people who develop AI and those who test it don’t have relationships with each other.
AI Verified (Sep 1, 2026)
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Yoshua Bengio, quoted in Snigdha Poonam, “If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side: can we stop AI from deceiving us?”, The Guardian, September 1, 2026.
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Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems
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AI Verified Bengio explicitly calls for independent risk evaluations by people without relationships to AI developers. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 4d ago
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AI Verified Correct answer: for. Bengio explicitly favors independent testing separate from AI developers, i.e. third-party audits. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 4d ago

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AI Verified The Guardian (Sept. 1, 2026) attributes this sentence directly to Yoshua Bengio. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 4d ago
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