AI "godfather" Yoshua Bengio said we need better testing for deceptive AI models.Alex Wong / Staff / Getty ImagesOpenAI's new o1 model is better at reasoning — and also deceiving — than previous models.Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI expert, told BI that a deceptive AI could be dangerous.Bengio said that stronger safety tests and regulatory oversight are needed for advanced AI models.OpenAI's new o1 model is better at scheming — and that makes the "godfather" of AI nervous.Yoshua Bengio, a Turing Award-winning Canadian computer scientist and professor at the University of Montreal, told Business Insider in an emailed statement that o1 has a "far superior ability to reason than its predecessors.""In general, the ability to deceive is very dangerous, and we should have much stronger safety tests to evaluate that risk and its consequences in o1's case," Bengio wrote in the statement.Bengio earned the nickname "godfather of AI" for his award-winning research on machine learning with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.OpenAI released its new o1 model — which is designed to think more like humans — earlier this month.