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January 15, 2026
Grok scandal highlights how AI industry is ‘too unconstrained’, tech pioneer says
‘Godfather of AI’ Yoshua Bengio says firms building powerful systems without appropriate guardrails
TL;DR
- AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio believes the AI industry is "too unconstrained."
- The scandal over X's Grok AI tool manipulating intimate images highlights a lack of guardrails.
- Bengio has appointed Yuval Noah Harari and Sir John Rose to the board of his AI safety lab, LawZero.
- LawZero aims to develop technical solutions for trustworthy, safe-by-design AI systems.
- Bengio warns against granting AI rights and stresses the importance of maintaining human control over AI systems.
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