Ep. 46 (AI Futures) - The Global South Needs to Step Up To The AI Challenge | Yoshua Bengio, Turing Award Winner

Ep. 46 (AI Futures) - The Global South Needs to Step Up To The AI Challenge | Yoshua Bengio, Turing Award Winner

From The Great Tech Game Podcast: Geopolitics, Technology, Business and Global Affairs, with Anirudh Suri by Anirudh Suri

February 12, 2026 · 1h 0m · Episode 46

About this episode

Anirudh Suri interviews Yoshua Bengio about the implications of AI advancements on global power dynamics and economic inequality.

In this episode of *AI Futures* , host Anirudh Suri sits down with Professor Yoshua Bengio — Turing Award winner and one of the world’s most influential AI researchers, and chair of the International AI Safety Report (2025 and 2026) — for a wide-ranging conversation on what the next phase of AI progress could mean for global power, economic inequality, and human control.As AI systems grow more capable and increasingly autonomous the stakes are no longer theoretical. From AI agents that can plan, deceive, and evade oversight to an intensifying US–China AI arms race, this episode explores whether the world is heading toward shared prosperity or a second great divergence.In this conversation, we explore:• Why is the US–China competition blocking effective global regulation?• What can “middle powers” like India and Canada do to avoid being left out?• What “deceptive alignment” means—and why AI models' deception tendencies is worrying leading researchers• How AI could be misused for cyberattacks or biological threats• Will AI will displace more white-collar jobs than it creates?• Can AI be built as a global public good, rather than a winner-takes-all race?🔔 Subscribe and listen to…

People in this episode

Host: Anirudh Suri

Guest: Yoshua Bengio

Topics covered

  • AI progress
  • global power
  • economic inequality
  • US-China competition
  • AI regulation
  • cybersecurity
  • job displacement

Keywords

  • AI
  • Yoshua Bengio
  • US-China competition
  • economic inequality
  • global regulation
  • job displacement
  • cyberattacks

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: International AI Safety Report

Places: US, China, India, Canada

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