The most-cited computer scientist alive says AI could make humanity extinct within a decade

Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist widely regarded as one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, has renewed his warning that hyperintelligent machines could pose an existential threat to humanity within the next decade. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal originally published in October 2025 and republished by Fortune this week, Bengio argued that AI […] This story continues at The Next Web