Top computer scientist warns AI could end humanity within a decade
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– Yoshua Bengio, a Turing Award-winning AI pioneer, renewed his warning that hyperintelligent machines could pose an existential threat to humanity within the next decade.
– His warning was made in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, originally published in October 2025 and republished by Fortune.
– Bengio argued that AI safety concerns require urgent attention to prevent potential catastrophic outcomes.
Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist and one of the foremost pioneers of artificial intelligence, has issued a stark new warning: superintelligent AI could bring about human extinction within the next ten years. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal originally published in October 2025 and recently picked up by Fortune, Bengio argued that the pace of AI development now outstrips our ability to control it. He emphasized that the risk is not a distant, theoretical possibility but a credible near-term threat, one that demands urgent global governance. Bengio specifically pointed to the dangers of autonomous AI systems that could pursue goals misaligned with human welfare, a scenario he believes is increasingly plausible without robust safety frameworks. His comments add significant weight to a growing chorus of tech leaders and researchers calling for a coordinated pause in the most advanced AI training runs.
(Source: The Next Web)
