Yoshua Bengio

Stories

AI systems cross the creativity threshold

Founder and Scientific Advisor of Mila; Founder of LawZero

For decades, creativity was considered AI's final frontier—the one domain where machines could never match human ingenuity. That assumption just cracked.

Updated May 23

The recursive loop begins

New Capabilities

Led International AI Safety Report 2026; warns capabilities are outpacing safeguards while remaining optimistic about technical solutions at LawZero

In May 2025, DeepMind's AlphaEvolve became the first commercial AI to optimize its own training—shaving 23% off a critical computation kernel. Since then, the loop has tightened: by April 2026, Anthropic's Claude agents were outperforming human alignment researchers on safety experiments, and GPT-5.5 had rewritten its own serving infrastructure to run 20% faster.

Updated May 19

Notable Quotes

Frontier AI models already show signs of self-preservation in experimental settings today, and eventually giving them rights would mean we're not allowed to shut them down.

from The recursive loop begins · Updated May 19

These concerning behaviors increase with the reasoning capabilities of these systems.

from The recursive loop begins · Updated May 19

I'm more and more confident that it can be done in a reasonable number of years, so that there might be an impact before AI systems become so powerful that misalignment causes terrible problems.

from The recursive loop begins · Updated May 19

Since the release of the inaugural International AI Safety Report a year ago, we have seen significant leaps in model capabilities, but also in their potential risks, and the gap between the pace of technological advancement and our ability to implement effective safeguards remains a critical challenge.

from The recursive loop begins · Updated May 19