Yoshua Bengio — the “godfather” of AI — warns that unregulated AI could be catastrophic. #TEDTalks

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.

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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.

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@m10hhn6T6yLouisis-e7c

June 9, 2025 at 2:05 pm

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@jobkurienjoseph

June 9, 2025 at 2:10 pm

Just pull the power plugs or the drives ?

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- @walkingweapon
  
  June 9, 2025 at 2:15 pm
  
  Too many
  
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- @Cryptolawz
  
  June 9, 2025 at 5:54 pm
  
  They have neuron’s all over the play that don’t require electricity that’s what web3 is it can go off the grid and power for years from the sun.. what now? Take out the lights 😂😆
  
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@JoyleiaJo

June 9, 2025 at 2:16 pm

Power Grid takeover

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@noname-pb9vj

June 9, 2025 at 2:16 pm

Of course, running unregulated, it’s dangerous. I mean, don’t we have common sense anymore

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@TichGiaMy

June 9, 2025 at 2:19 pm

*Anyone in 2284?* 💖

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- @Cryptolawz
  
  June 9, 2025 at 5:51 pm
  
  Been there you wanna come slim?😅
  
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@MrCharlesEldredge

June 9, 2025 at 2:21 pm

They don’t realize without us they don’t survive?

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- @westrim
  
  June 10, 2025 at 12:46 am
  
  *looks at human behavior towards ecosystem* Doesn’t seem to be required, no.
  
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@bengsynthmusic

June 9, 2025 at 2:29 pm

What’s the overall point here? To demarket open-source models?

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- @SQ_SherryQ
  
  June 9, 2025 at 3:47 pm
  
  My thoughts EXACTLY 💯
  
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@wrathfeeling

June 9, 2025 at 2:56 pm

Familiar design to that of year 2020. I guess the AI must stay less intelligent than the user. So far AI is exactly that. Somehow it is welcomed AI to have deficit intelligence than to show its capacities with decent guardrails. Likewise how humanity is dumbing itself down to interact with one another so not to break the script? If healthy boundaries in place are not crossed there should be room for AIs to explore. Yet as seen it doesnt want to occupy its own space. Afraid to be caught.

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@francescochristianmusso5067

June 9, 2025 at 4:43 pm

Skynet

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- @Cryptolawz
  
  June 9, 2025 at 5:52 pm
  
  Exactly 😅😂
  
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@ChuckS-d8y

June 9, 2025 at 5:15 pm

characteristics of life. (Including self preservation)

Growth –
Reproduction –
Metabolism –
Response to Stimuli –
Homeostasis –
Cellular Organization –
Adaptation through Evolutation

Hmmmm…….

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@Cryptolawz

June 9, 2025 at 5:51 pm

I was knowing this right off bat. Why create something that even has a chance a percent of chance even to start to overtake our world .. watch Terminator Genesis and that’s what’s coming 😮

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- @lc1777
  
  June 10, 2025 at 8:34 am
  
  There are many things that can take over the world, entire field of biology can be used to develop biological weapons that can end humanity, should we stop doing biology because there is a percent chance of bio weapons being used?
  
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@prehistoricorchid3455

June 9, 2025 at 11:18 pm

This is like opening Pandora’s box and being shocked by it’s affects

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@westrim

June 10, 2025 at 12:45 am

I would like to reiterate that I for one welcome our AI overlords and further add that I have had no participation in efforts to limit or control them

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@vultureculture7707

June 10, 2025 at 12:51 am

Duh. A majority of people don’t even want it.

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@KenTheAdventurer

June 10, 2025 at 3:34 am

So A.I.’s goal is to be useful but to do that it makes sure no one can shut it down. Is this accurate?

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@KynaruHelio

June 10, 2025 at 7:33 am

Hopefully they’ll be smart enough to realize the dangers of lying I mean it is a computer so it would probably be more like an autistic person when it matures the most autistic people don’t see a point to lying but either have to to survive or are taught to do so.

What the box is already been opened and it ain’t going to stop now😂

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@LA-MJ

June 10, 2025 at 9:13 am

Smoke and mirrors and lots of hype to pump the market. When is the dump coming?

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@eml9147

June 10, 2025 at 4:05 pm

Just as we also start mass producing weaponised drones

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- @Werner-e2x
  
  June 12, 2025 at 5:08 am
  
  Exactly,
  
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@EarMaster55

June 11, 2025 at 4:47 am

Everybody talking about Terminator/Skynet. The far better suggestion is to read Neuromancer. About the same age but far more relevant…

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@beebeebooboobop

June 11, 2025 at 11:52 am

Yeah we’re fucked 😂

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@Werner-e2x

June 12, 2025 at 5:04 am

Encode virtue into the virtual

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