Yoshua Bengio proposes pathway to safe superintelligence development

        May 9, 2026

Yoshua Bengio proposes pathway to safe superintelligence development

                X-Risk Daily

                Saturday 09 May 2026

Transformative AI

Yoshua Bengio proposes pathway to safe superintelligence development

Yoshua Bengio, a Turing Award winner and one of the pioneers of deep learning, has outlined a detailed technical pathway for building superintelligent AI systems safely, according to an interview published on 7 May on the 80,000 Hours podcast.

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