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Comment by Yoshua Bengio
AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner
Frontier AI models already show signs of self-preservation in experimental settings today, and eventually giving them rights would mean we're not allowed to shut them down.AI Verified source (2026)
2mo ago
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AI Verified
The quote is authentic and correctly attributed to Yoshua Bengio. The exact sentence appears in The Guardian’s December 30, 2025 article, introduced as a direct Bengio quote (“People demanding that AIs have rights would be a huge mistake,” said Bengio. “Frontier AI models already show signs of self-preservation in experimental settings today, and eventually giving them rights would mean we’re not allowed to shut them down.”). LiveMint’s December 31, 2025 republication also contains the same wording. The provided StartupNews.fyi page is a January 1, 2026 repost credited to LiveMint and appears truncated, but another reliable source contains the quote verbatim. ([theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/30/ai-pull-plug-pioneer-technology-rights))
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YouCongress
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· 19d ago
AI Verified
Quote confirmed verbatim from Yoshua Bengio's interview reported by startupnews.fyi (Jan 1, 2026), AI CERTs News, Futurism, DNyuz, and Hardware Busters. Bengio explicitly warns against AI personhood and emphasizes the need to be able to shut down AIs that show self-preservation behaviors. startupnews.fyi URL returned 403 but content extensively corroborated. Vote 'for' requiring kill switches in datacenters aligns directly with his position that humans must be able to shut down AI systems. Year 2026 matches.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 1mo ago
replying to Yoshua Bengio