{"id":364305,"date":"2025-12-23T18:44:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364305\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:44:28","slug":"godfather-of-ai-shares-advice-to-his-grandson-in-the-age-of-ai-be-a-beautiful-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364305\/","title":{"rendered":"Godfather of AI Shares Advice to His Grandson in the Age of AI: Be a ‘Beautiful Human’"},"content":{"rendered":"

As AI displaces jobs<\/a>, one of the “godfathers of AI” shared the career advice he’d give to his 4-year-old grandson to prepare him for the future.<\/p>\n

“Work on the beautiful human being that you can become. I think that that part of ourselves will persist even if machines can do most of the jobs,” research scientist Yoshua Bengio<\/a> said on an episode of “The Diary of a CEO” podcast<\/a>, hosted by Steven Bartlett, posted on December 18.<\/p>\n

During the one-hour and forty-minute episode, Bengio said that with companies eager to integrate AI into their workflows, it’s only a matter of time before AI can do most jobs that humans do behind a keyboard. Physical jobs, like plumbing<\/a>, may eventually be replaced by robots, too, although this may take longer, he said.<\/p>\n

Bengio said that even as the world becomes more tech-driven, there will always be a need for human qualities such as love, accepting responsibility, and enjoying contributing to others’ well-being.<\/p>\n

“If I’m in a hospital, I want a human being to hold my hand while I’m anxious or in pain. The human touch is going to, I think, take more and more value, as the other skills become more and more automated,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Alongside Geoffrey Hinton<\/a> and Yann LeCun<\/a>, Bengio is known as one of the “godfathers of AI” because of his pioneering research in deep learning and neural networks. He is a professor in the computer science and operations research department at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, and in June, he launched the AI safety research nonprofit LawZero. In a statement on his website<\/a>, Bengio said the organization aims to reduce dangerous behaviors associated with agentic AI systems, such as deception.<\/p>\n

All three industry leaders have been sharing their advice for how people can pivot their careers to stay relevant in the age of AI.<\/p>\n

In a June 2025 episode of “Diary of a CEO,” Hinton said it’s a good time to become a plumber<\/a>, as it may be a long time before AI disrupts physical jobs. Earlier this month, LeCun told Business Insider he thinks computer science students<\/a> should focus on foundational courses, like maths and physics, rather than trendy courses on the technology of the day, if they want to break into AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As AI displaces jobs, one of the “godfathers of AI” shared the career advice he’d give to his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-364305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}