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Yoshua Bengio says he and fellow members of the UN’s 40-person independent scientific panel on AI briefed governments on their preliminary report. The discussion kept returning to a practical fault line: who gets the compute, infrastructure and access needed to shape AI, rather than merely use what others build?

Why it matters

The account comes from Bengio’s co-chair briefing described in a Rappler analysis, so the panel’s eventual recommendations remain ahead. But the political question is already clear: can AI governance stay independent while making access less lopsided?

Discuss: Should equitable access to compute and AI infrastructure be treated as a core governance goal, or left primarily to markets and national policy?

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