{"id":21395,"date":"2025-12-31T09:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/ai-showing-signs-of-self-preservation-and-humans-should-be-ready-to-pull-plug-says-pioneer\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:37:19","slug":"ai-showing-signs-of-self-preservation-and-humans-should-be-ready-to-pull-plug-says-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/ai-showing-signs-of-self-preservation-and-humans-should-be-ready-to-pull-plug-says-pioneer\/","title":{"rendered":"AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio warns against granting legal rights to cutting-edge technology<\/p>\n<p>A pioneer of AI has criticised calls to grant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/sep\/30\/artificial-intelligence-personhood\">the technology rights<\/a>, warning that it was showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be prepared to pull the plug if needed.<\/p>\n<p>Yoshua Bengio said giving legal status to cutting-edge AIs would be akin to giving citizenship to hostile extraterrestrials, amid fears that advances in the technology were far outpacing the ability to constrain them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/30\/ai-pull-plug-pioneer-technology-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d8d3a58de6675a32e1a91d9b4311a2c4df664da2\/416_0_3478_2782\/master\/3478.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ff9c79195515fa13a1ce46f60c7cb15b\" title=\"AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer\" \/>Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio warns against granting legal rights to cutting-edge technology<br \/>\nA pioneer of AI has criticised calls to grant the technology rights, warning that it was showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be prepared to pull the plug if needed.<br \/>\nYoshua Bengio said giving legal status to cutting-edge AIs would be akin to giving citizenship to hostile extraterrestrials, amid fears that advances in the technology were far outpacing the ability to constrain them. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio warns against granting legal rights to cutting-edge technology A pioneer of AI has criticised calls to grant the technology rights, warning that it was showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be prepared to pull the plug if needed. Yoshua Bengio said giving legal status to cutting-edge AIs would be &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/ai-showing-signs-of-self-preservation-and-humans-should-be-ready-to-pull-plug-says-pioneer\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}