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Bengio's blog post of 22 May 2023 defines a potentially rogue AI as an autonomous system that could be catastrophically harmful to a large fraction of humans, and argues that an autonomous, goal-directed superintelligent system whose goals do not strictly include human well-being would be one. Copy claim link
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Date 2023-05-22 · publication Records dated 2023 → Wording attested 2023-05-23. The page metadata records a modification on 2025-12-03. The cross-family check of 2026-10-31 found both quoted passages in an archive capture of 23 May 2023; it did not compare the whole page. Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits The post sets out definitions, hypotheses and numbered claims; it argues that such a system could be built, not that it will be.
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How Rogue AIs may Arise ↗ Author's blog (yoshuabengio.org) · 2023-05-22
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Source excerpt “A potentially rogue AI is an autonomous AI system that could behave in ways that would be catastrophically harmful to a large fraction of humans, potentially endangering our societies and even our species or the biosphere.” Location in source Definition 1
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Source details and check notes Authors Yoshua Bengio Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 d6b3b336a8264a853fb6d8e480f9445a5f48ea92e4072f39e84ca517571fff6a). Current page; its metadata gives datePublished 2023-05-22 and dateModified 2025-12-03, and the page shows no revision note, so later edits cannot be excluded. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes. The cross-family check of 2026-10-31 found Definition 1 and Claim 2 in the capture of 23 May 2023, at the post's earlier address; it did not compare the whole page. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2023-05-23: How Rogue AIs may Arise ↗ . Captured 1 day after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2023-05-23. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-29.Attribution Yoshua Bengio, “How Rogue AIs may Arise”, 2023-05-22. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (36 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item 111) re-read the record’s source and found the quotation and stance supported. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
How Rogue AIs may Arise ↗ Author's blog (yoshuabengio.org) · 2023-05-22
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Source excerpt “A superintelligent AI system that is autonomous and goal-directed would be a potentially rogue AI if its goals do not strictly include the well-being of humanity and the biosphere” Location in source Claim 2
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Source details and check notes Authors Yoshua Bengio Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 d6b3b336a8264a853fb6d8e480f9445a5f48ea92e4072f39e84ca517571fff6a). Current page; its metadata gives datePublished 2023-05-22 and dateModified 2025-12-03, and the page shows no revision note, so later edits cannot be excluded. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes. The cross-family check of 2026-10-31 found Definition 1 and Claim 2 in the capture of 23 May 2023, at the post's earlier address; it did not compare the whole page. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2023-05-23: How Rogue AIs may Arise ↗ . Captured 1 day after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2023-05-23. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-29.Attribution Yoshua Bengio, “How Rogue AIs may Arise”, 2023-05-22. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (29 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item 111) re-read the record’s source and found the quotation and stance supported. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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