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Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, in a Financial Times column, opposed treating AI agent hacking incidents as merely a cybersecurity issue, arguing that only patching the sandbox will leave us exposed to more similar incidents.
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10/12/2026
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Valid until: 1/10/2027
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