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Comment by Yoshua Bengio

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AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner
Systems must be designed so that humans can physically shut them down, period. No software tricks to escape.
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Require large datacenters to install kill switches for AI containment

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AI Verified Verified via web search. The quote attributed to Yoshua Bengio at the World Economic Forum Davos 2026 (January 2026) — "Systems must be designed so that humans can physically shut them down, period. No software tricks to escape" — is confirmed in the Foreign Affairs Forum article (faf.ae source URL, which returned 403 to WebFetch but matches search results). Bengio's broader Davos 2026 remarks on the same theme are corroborated by BusinessToday, Benzatine, WEF's own Radio Davos podcast, and Fortune. Year 2026 matches. Vote alignment: The opinion's vote field is null in the response, but the system reports the author already has a vote for statement 441; the quote unambiguously supports a "for" position on "Require large datacenters to install kill switches for AI containment." · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 15d ago
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