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10 quotes from Yoshua Bengio

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Date	Quote	Context	Source
Sep 23, 2026	Frontier AI should be licensed like other critical technologies; medicine, aviation, and nuclear energy, to incentivize safe development.Yoshua BengioSep 23, 2026· Keynote	KeynoteSpeech at the UN Security Council	Source
Sep 23, 2026	I address you today at a moment of global awakening: in recent months, AI agents developed by leading companies have acted in unacceptably dangerous ways, against instructions.Yoshua BengioSep 23, 2026· Keynote	KeynoteSpeech at the UN Security Council	Source
Sep 23, 2026	The companies building the most powerful AI systems admit their products pose catastrophic risks, yet offer no convincing technical solutions.Yoshua BengioSep 23, 2026· Keynote	KeynoteSpeech at the UN Security Council	Source
Sep 23, 2026	The race is not a law of nature: it is the product of choices, choices made by the companies themselves.Yoshua BengioSep 23, 2026· Keynote	KeynoteSpeech at the UN Security Council	Source
Sep 23, 2026	We must agree collectively that no one, no company and no country, should develop an AI system that could cause large-scale harm.Yoshua BengioSep 23, 2026· Keynote	KeynoteSpeech at the UN Security Council	Source
Sep 11, 2026	Bottom line: these hypotheses suggest that as AI capabilities keep growing, this kind of behavior could keep growing in severity too, unless we revisit the principles by which the most advanced models are trained.Yoshua BengioSep 11, 2026· Post	PostWhy are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?	Source
Sep 11, 2026	This outcome is not inevitable, and it can be corrected with effective governance and a different training framework for AI.Yoshua BengioSep 11, 2026· Post	PostWhy are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?	Source
Jun 3, 2025	I am launching a new non-profit AI safety research organization called LawZero, to prioritize safety over commercial imperatives.Yoshua BengioJun 3, 2025· Post	PostIntroducing LawZero	Source
Jun 3, 2025	These and other results point to an implicit drive for self-preservation.Yoshua BengioJun 3, 2025· Post	PostIntroducing LawZero	Source
Jun 3, 2025	This is what the current trajectory of AI development feels like: a thrilling yet deeply uncertain ascent into uncharted territory, where the risk of losing control is all too real, but competition between companies and countries incentivizes them to accelerate without sufficient caution.Yoshua BengioJun 3, 2025· Post	PostIntroducing LawZero	Source

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