Yoshua Bengio Warns Hyperintelligent AI with "Preservation Goals" Could Threaten Human Extinction Within 10 Years

Yoshua Bengio warns hyperintelligent AI with "preservation goals" could threaten human extinction within 10 years

Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist widely regarded as one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, has renewed his warning that hyperintelligent machines could pose an existential threat to humanity within the next decade. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal originally published in October 2025 and republished by Fortune this week, Bengio argued that AI […] This story continues at The Next Web

AI Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Warns of Existential Threat Within a Decade

Yoshua Bengio, one of the foundational architects of modern deep learning, has issued a stark warning that the trajectory of artificial intelligence could