The Turing Award winner Bengio warns: current safety measures can't keep up with the rapid pace of AI capabilities

Odaily Planet Daily News: At the Science Frontier Forum of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio issued a warning via remote connection: "AI has both lowered the bar for causing harm and raised the ceiling of potential damage."

In recent years, this visionary "Godfather of AI" has been dedicated to addressing the security challenges posed by AI. The LawZero project led by Bengio is working to build protective systems capable of identifying and preventing harmful behaviors such as AI deception and self-preservation. The international AI safety report he spearheaded has also reached a consistent conclusion: current safety measures can no longer keep up with the explosive pace of AI capability development. (Tencent Technology)