Turing Prize Winner Bengio Warns AI Safety Measures Cannot Keep Pace With Rapid AI Advancement at WAIC

According to Odaily, Turing Prize winner Joshua Bengio warned at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) that current AI safety measures cannot keep pace with rapid advancements in AI capabilities. "AI both lowers the threshold for harmful acts and raises the ceiling for potential harm," Bengio said during a remote session.

Bengio leads the LawZero project, which aims to build systems that can identify and prevent harmful AI behaviors such as deception and self-preservation mechanisms. His international AI safety report echoes the same conclusion: current safeguards are falling behind the speed of AI development.