AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio says AI agents could be the ‘most dangerous path’

• Talk of AI agents is everywhere in Davos. AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warned against them.
• Bengio said that agents with the power of AGI could lead to “catastrophic scenarios.”
• Bengio is researching how to build non-agentic systems to keep the agents in check.

Artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio has been at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week with a message: AI agents could end badly.

The topic of AI agents — artificial intelligence that can…