The Race to Build God: AI's Existential Gamble –Yoshua Bengio & Tristan Harris at Davos

Two of artificial intelligence's most influential voices—a pioneering AI researcher and a leading tech ethicist—warned the world's most powerful people this week that the race to build superintelligent machines has become an existential gamble that humanity may not survive, raising the uncomfortable question of whether the safeguards being deployed today are merely theater designed to appease regulators while the real competition accelerates underground. Bengio and Harris framed the challenge not as a distant theoretical concern but as an urgent present-day crisis unfolding in research labs and boardrooms where financial incentives and geopolitical pressures are drowning out safety considerations, suggesting that the institutions currently charged with managing AI's risks may themselves be part of the

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