Yoshua Bengio
person80%credibility0 / 0 / 0
Why this score Turing Award-winning deep-learning pioneer (Mila/Université de Montréal); chaired the International AI Safety Report. High credibility as a cautious scientific authority on AI risk; a motivated advocate for precaution, so risk-framing claims still checked.
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2023-05-30? unverified
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
The one-sentence Center for AI Safety ‘Statement on AI Risk,’ signed by more than 350 executives, researchers and engineers — including the CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic and Turing laureates Hinton and Bengio. A forward-looking, unfalsifiable claim about catastrophic risk; recorded as the field’s highest-profile collective warning, not as a checkable prediction. Yann LeCun of Meta pointedly did not sign.
2023-03-22? unverified
Therefore, we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
The Future of Life Institute’s ‘Pause Giant AI Experiments’ open letter, signed by Musk, Bengio, Russell, Wozniak and thousands of others. As a matter of record no lab paused — training of GPT-4-class and more capable models continued and accelerated through 2023–2026 — and nineteen past AAAI presidents published a counter-letter on 5 April 2023 urging ‘a constructive, collaborative, and scientific approach’ instead. But the letter is a normative call to action and a risk judgement, not a falsifiable factual prediction, so it is recorded rather than scored against its signatories.