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Yoshua Bengio wants recursive self-improvement in AI made illegal: a ban on systems designing ever more capable successors without human input, the point where, he argues, oversight ends.

Why it matters

Reaction splits on familiar lines. Supporters see a fast track to advances in science and medicine; critics such as journalist Jordan Schachtel call it fearmongering that would halt progress. The sharpest objection reported is practical: you cannot ban a technique, because enforcement would mean inspecting training clusters, and no country does that. The call, reported by The News International as it spreads on social media, lands in a week thick with slowdown arguments and OpenAI's disclosures about deceptive model behaviour. From warnings to a named legal ban is a new register. If no country inspects training clusters, who actually enforces a ban like this?

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