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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/04/2026

I appeared with Astra Taylor and Yoshua Bengio (co-winner of the Turing Prize for his work creating the "deep learning" techniques powering today's AI surge), on a panel moderated by CBC Ideas host Nahlah Ayed: www.eventbrite.ca/e/artificial... 7/

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Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Disrupter

The third event of the series "Conversations: sponsored by Charles Bronfman".

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/04/2026

It's safe to say that Bengio and I mostly disagree about AI. He's running an initiative called "Lawzero," whose goal is to create an international AI consortium that produces AI as a "digital public good" that is designed to be open, auditable, transparent and safe: lawzero.org 8/

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LawZero | Home

LawZero is a nonprofit startup developing technical solutions for highly-capable, safe-by-design AI systems.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/04/2026

Bengio said he'd started Lawzero because he was convinced AI was going to get a *lot* more powerful, and, in the absence of some public-spirited version of AI, we would be subject to all kinds of manipulation and surveillance, and that the resulting chaos would present a civilizational risk. 9/

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 16/04/2026

I was in the audience and from that perspective I can say not only did Bengio disagree with CoryD, but he was *pissed* that his views were even being questioned.

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