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Yoshua Bengio

Scientific Director at Mila - Quebec AI Institute

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Turing Award winner (2018) and scientific director of Mila, the Quebec AI Institute. Pioneer of deep learning and generative models. Leading academic voice on AI safety, governance, and the risks of advanced AI systems.

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Bengio is doing what no other Turing laureate is willing to do: getting his hands dirty in the policy trenches. While Hinton sounds alarms and LeCun dismisses them, Bengio is actually writing governance frameworks and sitting in UN working groups. His lack of commercial entanglements — no equity, no board seats at labs — makes him the closest thing the AI safety movement has to an honest broker. If binding international AI agreements ever materialize, his fingerprints will be on them.

Updated May 2026
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