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- AI godfather Yoshua Bengio says the risks of AI should not be underplayed.
- In an interview with Insider, Bengio criticized peers dismissing AI's threat to humanity.
- His remarks come after Meta's Yann LeCun accused Bengio and AI founders of "fear-mongering."
Claims by Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, that AI won't wipe out humanity are dangerous and wrong according to one of his fellow AI godfathers.