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Bengio's blog post of 22 May 2023 states that once a recipe for a rogue AI is accessible, one or a few people intending to destroy humanity could build one, and calls this the fastest route to a rogue AI. Copy claim link
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Date 2023-05-22 · publication Records dated 2023 → Wording attested 2026-10-29. The page metadata records a modification on 2025-12-03; the quoted wording is attested from the retrieval of 2026-10-29 and was not compared with a copy of its year of publication. Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits The post treats deliberate construction and unwitting misalignment as two routes and does not rank their likelihood. The page metadata records a modification on 2025-12-03; the quoted wording is attested from the retrieval of 2026-10-29 and was not compared with a copy of its year of publication.
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How Rogue AIs may Arise ↗ Author's blog (yoshuabengio.org) · 2023-05-22
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Source excerpt “if a recipe to obtain a rogue AI is discovered and generally accessible, it is enough that one or a few genocidal humans do what it takes to build one.” Location in source Section on scenarios
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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 (30 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. 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 “The fastest route to a rogue AI system is if a human with the appropriate technical skills and means intentionally builds it with the objective of destroying humanity or a part of it set explicitly as a goal.” Location in source Section "Genocidal Humans"
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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 (38 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. 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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