They Know It Could Kill Us. They're Building It Anyway.
One of the three people most responsible for building modern AI, the most-cited living scientist in the world, is now saying it could make humanity extinct. And he is spending his own money to try to stop it.
His name is Yoshua Bengio. He won the Turing Award, the Nobel Prize of computer science. He helped build the foundational technology underneath ChatGPT and every AI system reshaping the planet right now. And in 2023, he publicly asked the industry to slow down.
They ignored him.
In this episode, Michael goes further than any headline has dared to go, not just reporting what Bengio said…
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