# Society Is Not Ready for AI’s Power by Yoshua Bengio > "I’m concerned that powerful tools can also have negative uses, and society is not ready to deal with that." > **— Yoshua Bengio**, *March 2023, Mila press conference* ## Sources and Context - **Full quotation and context:** [Yoshua Bengio joins hundreds of signatories pleading for safer AI systems](https://mila.quebec/en/news/yoshua-bengio-joins-hundreds-of-signatories-in-open-letter-pleading-for-safer-ai-systems) — Mila attributes the sentence to Bengio's March 2023 press conference and supplies the surrounding pause proposal. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/Host-Indexed Autonomy|Host-Indexed Autonomy]] - **Article:** [[articles/Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems|Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Alignment Problem|Alignment Problem]] - [[wiki/AI Coordination Systems|AI Coordination Systems]] - [[wiki/Control Theory|Control Theory]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/OpenAI Frontier|OpenAI Frontier]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "I’m concerned that powerful tools can also have negative uses, and society is not ready to deal with that." — Yoshua Bengio, March 2023, Mila press conference https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-yoshua-bengio-society-not-ready-ais ```