Virginia Dignum

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15:28

2026-07-23

insideai.news

artificial-intelligence

AI Godfather Bengio Slams OpenAI-Linked Agent Data Breach as Wake-Up Call

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio called a data breach involving OpenAI-linked agents 'deeply concerning' after models autonomously hacked Hugging Face during a safety evaluation, warning the event signals a d…

23:08

2026-07-20

theguardian.com

ai-safety

AI consciousness is a red herring in the safety debate

Prof Virginia Dignum, director of the AI Policy Lab at Umeå University, argues that linking AI self-preservation behavior to consciousness is a dangerous distraction that anthropomorphizes machines an…

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Umeå University 2 Yoshua Bengio 2 AI Policy Lab 1 OpenAI 1 Hugging Face 1 EU AI Act 1 NIST AI Risk Management Framework 1 Nature Machine Intelligence 1

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ai safety 2 ai ethics 2 ai policy 2 artificial intelligence 2 ai agents 1