Yoshua Bengio - Why We Shouldn't Blast Off to AGI Just Yet (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 1)

This is an interview with Dr. Yoshua Bengio, Turing Award Winner and Scientific Director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms.

This is the first episode in a 5-part series about "AGI Destinations" - where we unpack the preferable and non-preferable futures humanity might strive towards in the years ahead.

Watch Yoshua's full episode on The Trajectory YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Z5lgtH7_I

See the full article from this episode: https://danfaggella.com/bengio1

Read more of Yoshua's work at: https://yoshuabengio.org/

Some of the resources referenced in this episode:

-- The Intelligence Trajectory Political Matrix: https://danfaggella.com/itpm
-- The SDGs of Strong AGI: https://emerj.com/ai-power/sdgs-of-ai/

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