An open letter signed by roughly 400 scientists, including deep-learning pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, calls for an international body to set containment rules for AI systems and track significant AI security incidents. The letter urges immediate use of sandboxing and airgapping—disconnecting AI models from the internet—to contain systems capable of cyberattacks, according to Reuters and BNN Bloomberg.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-14
A feature recounts how in 2014, University of Montreal intern Dzmitry Bahdanau, working under Yoshua Bengio and Kyunghyun Cho, developed an 'attention' mechanism for neural networks tackling English-to-French translation. That innovation, which let models weigh which parts of input mattered most, is described as a foundational step leading toward today's large language models like ChatGPT.
quantamagazine.org
· 2026-10-14
Researchers and executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other leading AI labs issued a wave of stark warnings this week about the technology's catastrophic potential. Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio backed an Anthropic researcher's resignation over safety fears, saying frontier lab scientists see risks months before the public does. He also cautioned that current AI systems already possess hacking and persuasion capabilities that could be weaponized against humans.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-15
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