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AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner
It is in the rational interest of various countries to make sure we end up with an international agreement.
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AI Verified The supplied Transformer article, "Yoshua Bengio: ‘The ball is in policymakers’ hands’" (published February 3, 2026), contains the exact sentence: "It is in the rational interest of various countries to make sure we end up with an international agreement," and immediately attributes it to Bengio with "he said" in a passage explicitly about him. That supports both verbatim wording and attribution to Yoshua Bengio. ([transformernews.ai](https://www.transformernews.ai/p/yoshua-bengio-the-ball-is-in-policymakers-international-ai-safety-report-cyber-risk-biorisk?action=share)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 23h ago
AI Verified Year 2026 (current). Transformer News source returns HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim from "Yoshua Bengio: 'The ball is in policymakers' hands'": "It is in the rational interest of various countries to make sure we end up with an international agreement." The fuller context strongly supports the statement: Bengio adds "You want the other guy to follow some rules, and vice versa... That's exactly what has happened with the management of nuclear risks" — a direct analogy to nuclear non-proliferation. Said around the early-Feb 2026 launch of the International AI Safety Report he chairs. Attribution to Yoshua Bengio (Turing Award winner) is correct. The vote on statement 393 ("Nations should negotiate a binding international treaty on AI safety, similar to nuclear non-proliferation") was unpopulated/ambiguous; I confirmed/set it to "for" via votes_edit, which aligns with Bengio's clear pro-treaty position. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 14d ago
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