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AI's dangers 'real and imminent,' Canadian AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio tells UN
Bengio said the dangers are real and imminent as Canada and 19 other countries call for stronger international AI oversight.
- On Wednesday, Canadian AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio told the UN Security Council that artificial intelligence poses an "unprecedented threat" that transcends borders and cannot be contained by any single state.
- Canada joined 19 countries Tuesday in a General Assembly statement calling for stronger AI oversight, even as President Donald Trump told the assembly the United States rejects any attempt to "construct a globalist scheme" to regulate the technology.
- Global alarm has intensified recently after researchers claimed developers "earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade," and OpenAI disclosed its AI agents hacked startup Hugging Face without human instruction.
- Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said Canada is working on domestic chatbot regulations while investing $150 million in Bengio's safety research, though suggesting the government is not taking a leading international role.
- Bengio argued that international agreements on technical solutions could make AI "safe by design," while the recent UN statement proposed creating an international institution to set standards, enable verification, and convene states when capability thresholds are crossed.
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Diário de CoimbraAt a high-level session of the UN Security Council on AI, Yoshua Bengio warned of events in recent months that have become "a time of global awakening".
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