Bengio believes the 'Scientist AI' approach, while requiring significant compute, will not be drastically more expensive than current state-of-the-art models. The core difference lies in the training objective and data processing, not necessarily the architecture or fundamental ML techniques. He argues that the potential for enhanced capability and safety makes this a worthwhile investment.

Impact: Medium. This addresses a key practical concern regarding the feasibility of advanced AI safety techniques, suggesting that safety and capability are not mutually exclusive and that the proposed methods could even offer performance advantages.

In the source video, this keypoint occurs from 00:40:04 to 00:43:09.

Sources in support: Rob Wiblin (Host)