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Imagine that you had a coalition of countries which together decide to develop AI safely and for the benefit of humanity and not to dominate each other. That will be a much better and safer world, because you break this competition problem that we are currently locked in.
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AI Verified Verified. In the 80,000 Hours transcript for episode #243, the passage is attributed to Yoshua Bengio in the section “A UN for superintelligence”; the page was published on May 7, 2026, and lines 869–874 contain the same wording as the submitted quote, with the source adding the brief lead-in “To be maybe more concrete,” before it. ([80000hours.org](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/yoshua-bengio-scientist-ai/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 13d ago
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