Woofun AI reports that Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio issued a warning at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) Science Frontier Forum. Speaking via remote connection, Bengio stated that "AI has both lowered the bar for causing harm and raised the ceiling of potential damage."

Bengio leads the LawZero project, which aims to build systems identifying harmful behaviors like AI deception and self-preservation. An international AI safety report he spearheaded concludes that existing safety measures cannot keep pace with the rapid development of AI capabilities.