Comment by Yoshua Bengio

At the same time, in order to reduce the probability of someone intentionally or unintentionally bringing about a rogue AI, we need to increase governance and we should consider limiting access to the large-scale generalist AI systems that could be weaponized, which would mean that the code and neural net parameters would not be shared in open-source and some of the important engineering tricks to make them work would not be shared either. Ideally this would stay in the hands of neutral international organizations (think of a combination of IAEA and CERN for AI) that develop safe and beneficial AI systems that could also help us fight rogue AIs. [...] Moreover, governments can help monitor and punish other states who start undercover AI projects. Governments could have oversight on a superhuman AI without that code being open-source.
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AI Verified The quote clearly supports the idea: it says AI should ideally stay in the hands of 'neutral international organizations' and explicitly says to 'think of a combination of IAEA and CERN for AI,' which directly implies support for a global AI institute similar to CERN. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
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AI Verified The quote explicitly favors "neutral international organizations" and says "think of a combination of IAEA and CERN for AI," which clearly supports creating a global AI institute of that kind. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago

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AI Verified Verified: the official Yoshua Bengio blog post "FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks," published June 24, 2023 and attributed on-page to Yoshua Bengio, contains this passage in A20 at lines 187–189. Your [...] omission is faithful: it skips the intervening sentence about reducing the flow of information and the closing sentence about international agreements. The supplied URL redirects to the current official permalink. ([yoshuabengio.org](https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/06/24/faq-on-catastrophic-ai-risks/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. The main portion of the quote is directly confirmed - this is from Yoshua Bengio's June 2023 FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks (yoshuabengio.org). The first paragraph including "neutral international organizations (think of a combination of IAEA and CERN for AI) that develop safe and beneficial AI systems that could also help us fight rogue AIs" appears verbatim in multiple confirmed sources (same as verified opinion 6762). The additional sentence about governments monitoring and punishing other states with undercover AI projects is consistent with Bengio's documented positions on international oversight and his Senate testimony. The vote "for" the statement "Grant member states majority governance control in the CERN for AI" aligns - Bengio explicitly proposes "neutral international organizations" run by governments, with state-level governance and oversight authority. Could not fetch yoshuabengio.org directly (blocked). · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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