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Comment by Yoshua Bengio
AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner
Unfortunately, the pace of advances is still much greater than the pace of [progress in] how we can manage those risks and mitigate them. And, that, I think, puts the ball in the hands of the policymakers.AI Verified source (2026)
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AI Verified
The cited Transformer article, published February 3, 2026, attributes the passage to Yoshua Bengio with “he said” and contains the exact wording of the submitted quote, including the bracketed interpolation “[progress in].” A search result for the same page also reproduces the passage. ([transformernews.ai](https://www.transformernews.ai/p/yoshua-bengio-the-ball-is-in-policymakers-international-ai-safety-report-cyber-risk-biorisk))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
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AI Verified
Verified. The source URL returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search of the transformernews.ai article (titled "Yoshua Bengio: 'The ball is in policymakers' hands'", Feb 2026) confirmed the quote verbatim: "Unfortunately, the pace of advances is still much greater than the pace of [progress in] how we can manage those risks and mitigate them," and "that puts the ball in the hands of the policymakers." Correctly attributed to Yoshua Bengio (AI pioneer, Turing Award winner). Year 2026 is current. The bracketed insertion "[progress in]" matches the allowed clarification convention. The vote "for" on statement #435 ("Mandate 72-hour reporting of critical AI safety incidents to a national authority") aligns directionally with Bengio's argument that risk-mitigation is lagging and policymakers must act — incident reporting being a concrete instance of such policymaker action that Bengio, a leading AI-safety advocate, supports.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 28d ago
replying to Yoshua Bengio