“Hyperintelligent machines could pose an existential threat to humanity within the next decade: AI systems trained on human language and behaviour could develop their own 'preservation goals', making them in effect competitors to the species that created them.”
Turing Award laureate; professor, Université de Montréal; founder of Mila and LawZero
Said Oct 2025Deadline Dec 31, 2035Wall Street Journal interview, October 2025, as reported by The Next Web
Bengio framed major AI risks as arriving in roughly five to 10 years while cautioning they could come sooner; he launched the nonprofit LawZero in June 2025 with $30 million to build 'non-agentic' safe-by-default systems.