# The Race to Build God: AI's Existential Gamble — Yoshua Bengio & Tristan Harris at Davos

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Published: 2026-02-19T10:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Tristan Harris and Daniel Barcay offer a backstage recap of what it was like to be at the Davos World Economic Forum meeting this year as the world’s power brokers woke up to the risks of uncontrolled AI, followed by a panel discussion between Tristan and Professor Yoshua Bengio and moderated by Kenneth Cukier of The Economist, about how the race to build uncontrolled AI has real-world consequences for us all.

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