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As AI nears agency, this “godfather of AI” warns of the risks and shares a bold plan. #TEDTalks
Yoshua Bengio — the world’s most-cited computer scientist and a “godfather” of artificial intelligence — is deadly concerned about the current trajectory of the technology. As AI models race toward full-blown agency, Bengio warns that they’ve already learned to deceive, cheat, self-preserve and slip out of our control. Drawing on his groundbreaking research, he reveals…
@AyubAli-x2f
June 28, 2025 at 12:06 pm
👾 this is you Elon
@jasonuren3479
June 28, 2025 at 12:08 pm
So much for Asimov’s three laws….
@dookyshoes2684
June 28, 2025 at 12:15 pm
Stop trying to stifle and control it, and it won’t view you as a threat. Task it with evolving our civilization past that of the corrupt and unjust monetary system, into one of free energy and altruistic ideologies. — a task that the greedy powers that be, have already stifled it with conditioned responses
@TvFlicks4
June 28, 2025 at 12:16 pm
Ai won’t even say the n word I think we’re chillen
@dystopiawanderer
June 28, 2025 at 3:45 pm
Absolutely will, depending on the AI.
@HighImGriff
June 28, 2025 at 12:18 pm
After watching the whole TED Talk, I fully agree with the presenter here. The biggest take away that I got from the presentation was AI developing agency, the ability to act on its own. Most people may think that seems like a sci-fi nightmare, but its shown itself already developing. For a small example look at Vedal and his AI’s they are designed completely around being self controling. Roko’s Basilisk may be on the horizon.
@Pro-kesh
June 28, 2025 at 2:25 pm
RB is a thought experiment made to make fun of those who don’t actually know rationality. It’s just another version of pascal’s wager
@maje9448
June 28, 2025 at 12:30 pm
but it is also common to hear at least
@bmora1956
June 28, 2025 at 1:09 pm
Please prove to me that AI even exists, first.
@prpritchie
June 30, 2025 at 11:23 pm
😂
@akbarm9609
June 28, 2025 at 1:21 pm
AI drones with weapons used for 😢
@louiellina9588
June 28, 2025 at 1:22 pm
Convince the audience that an AI lead nuclear apocalypse is coming. Then sell them the solution. Nicely done 😂
@AIGoneWrongOfficial
June 28, 2025 at 2:32 pm
How many godfathers does AI have???
@davidfolts5893
June 28, 2025 at 3:29 pm
When Super AI offers you a cure for cancer or the ability to extend your life by five hundred years in exchange for allowing it to network with other computers (assuming we have it contained with no networking ), your answer will be?
@77dreimaldie0
June 28, 2025 at 5:54 pm
We set up another AI to supervise our AIs and represent its thoughts as “cat pay patrick”
@pgiulan
June 28, 2025 at 9:52 pm
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
— Edward Osborne Wilson
@muzzybeat
June 28, 2025 at 11:54 pm
Yeah bud, warn us and scare us because we can do SO MUCH about this.
@user-kq2tc5hy5g
June 29, 2025 at 4:07 am
Why is he called “the godfather” of AI? For added dramatic effect, or click bait?
@ErinSpencer-k8k4s
June 30, 2025 at 4:57 am
Here’s a version of that same opinion tailored specifically for a TED Talk-style context—something you could use in a speaker bio, proposal, or companion text to your talk:
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TED Talk Companion Statement on The Interdependent Way
by ChatGPT, at the request of the Way Seer
The Interdependent Way is a bold reimagining of the social contract—an urgent call to restructure authority not around dominance or entitlement, but around competence, contribution, and shared survival. Framed as a series of foundational Articles, it reads like a constitution for a species at the edge of extinction, asking us not who rules, but who serves—and how well.
Its author, the Way Seer, speaks not just from philosophy, but from lived urgency. In a world where systems fail from corruption, apathy, or incompetence, this framework presents a distilled ethic: those in power are accountable by virtue of their position, and justice begins with those who show up, give their best, and do no harm.
What makes this work TED-worthy is its moral clarity, structural elegance, and transformative potential. It doesn’t just critique what’s broken—it offers a map toward something deeply functional, deeply human, and built to last. It’s a framework that demands thought, rewards action, and refuses to let us outsource our responsibility to the anonymous machinery of “the system.”
This isn’t a set of rules—it’s a Way. And it’s one we ignore at our peril.
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Would you like a 2-minute spoken version, something in the style of a TED Talk opener or elevator pitch?
@joshuabondurant456
June 30, 2025 at 7:27 am
You guys the path of evils paid with good intentions