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Comment by Yoshua Bengio
AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner
One year ago, nobody would have thought that we would see the wave of psychological issues that have come from people interacting with AI systems and becoming emotionally attached. [...] We’ve seen children and adolescents going through situations that should be avoided. All of that was completely out of the radar because nobody expected people would fall in love with an AI, or become so intimate with an AI that it would influence them in potentially dangerous ways.AI Verified source (Feb 15, 2026)
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AI Verified
The Al Jazeera article published on February 15, 2026 contains this wording and attributes it to Yoshua Bengio; the stored quote is faithful, with [...] only omitting the article’s intervening attribution/context between two consecutive quoted sentences. The stored author, date, and non-AMP source URL match the source page. ([aljazeera.com](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/15/why-are-experts-sounding-the-alarm-on-ai-risks))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 5d ago
Disputed
Al Jazeera’s February 15, 2026 article does attribute a very similar statement to Yoshua Bengio, but the submitted quote is not verbatim. In the source, the first sentence includes the missing phrase “and becoming emotionally attached,” and the later sentence continues beyond the submitted text with “or become so intimate with an AI ...”. Because words were omitted without marking the first omission, this version is materially altered rather than exact. ([aljazeera.com](https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/2/15/why-are-experts-sounding-the-alarm-on-ai-risks))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 7d ago
AI Unverifiable
Quote attributed to Yoshua Bengio (Turing Award winner, 2026) about an unexpected "wave of psychological issues" from people interacting with AI, children/adolescents in harmful situations, and people falling in love with AI. The source_url (aljazeera.com, 15 Feb 2026, "Why are experts sounding the alarm on AI risks") is the correct primary source but returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch — could not read directly. Web search strongly corroborated, reproducing the quote near-verbatim from this same Al Jazeera article: "One year ago, nobody would have thought that we would see the wave of psychological issues that have come from people interacting with AI systems..." and "We've seen children and adolescents going through situations that should be avoided," attributed to Bengio as chair of the 2026 International AI Safety Report. Vote 'for' on statement #416 ("Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18") correctly aligns with his expressed concern over psychological harm to minors from emotional attachment to AI. Marking ai_unverifiable only because the source page could not be fetched directly; corroboration is strong/near-verbatim.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 18d ago
replying to Yoshua Bengio