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# Yoshua Bengio: over 400 researchers and I have signed the AI and cybersecurity open letter

Yoshua Bengio (@yoshua_bengio), X, 2026-10-13.
Source: https://x.com/yoshua_bengio/status/2110061471937757320

## Why it matters

Signatory and Turing Award winner announcing the 406-scientist letter on AI containment. About 49k views (fxtwitter, 14 Oct 2026 evening).

## Summary

Posted Tue Oct 13 17:33 UTC 2026 by Yoshua Bengio (@yoshua_bengio, 55141 followers). Checked via api.fxtwitter.com on 2026-10-14 (~21:30 CEST): 49266 views, 617 likes.

## Archived text

> Over 400 researchers and I have signed this open letter calling for the AI and security communities to come together to improve alignment and containment approaches in order to protect our critical infrastructure and digital systems.
> 
> https://ai-security-letter.org/

Archived 2026-10-14 via fxtwitter (unofficial).
Counts: 49,423 views, 618 likes, 187 reposts, 56 replies (at fetch time)
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## Cited in

- 2026-10-13: [406 scientists, including Hinton, Bengio and Russell, sign an open letter asking labs to airgap cyber-capable AI models by default and for an international body to track containment failures](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-13-scientists-open-letter-ai-cybersecurity-containment/)