Yoshua Bengio

To guarantee access to frontier models and mitigate the risks of major power concentrations, middle powers must collaborate to form a broad coalition with shared values and complementary resources.

Besides loss of control, the other catastrophic possibility is humans using AI to construct an eventually worldwide dictatorship. A small group of humans could concentrate all the power that AI will have, especially if we achieve AGI or superintellig...

The simplest form of treaty would be something like this, that the countries agree that if they do develop advanced AI: * That it will be done in a safe way. So maybe using techniques like Scientist AI or whatever else we have strong assurances for. ...

Frontier AI systems could surpass most individuals across most cognitive tasks within just a few years. These advances could unlock solutions to major global challenges, but they also carry significant risks. To safely advance toward superintelligenc...

We must be intentional and make collective, democratic choices, rather than letting market forces play out and risking leaving most citizens behind.

The right way to do this is if a model, before it is released in open weights or in other ways, a model should be tested. Can it be used by people? Are we sure we’re not going to lose control of it? Does it have the capabilities or intentions that co...

We're seeing AIs whose behavior, when they are tested, [...] is different from when they are being used. [This] significantly hampers our ability to correctly estimate risks. [...] The gap between the pace of technological advancement and our ability...

As a result, concentrated economic power in one or two countries could trigger economic and social crises elsewhere, unless the economic benefits of AI are globally shared or at least unless the same level of AI competence is available at an equitabl...

This risk should further motivate us to redesign the global political system in a way that would completely eradicate wars and thus obviate the need for military organizations and military weapons. [...] It goes without saying that lethal autonomous...

I think it's really important, because when we put open source out there for something that could be dangerous, which is a tiny minority of all the code that's open source, essentially we're opening the door to all the bad actors. And as these system...