Yoshua Bengio
Professor, Université de Montréal; founder of Mila and LawZero · as of 2026-10-04 · source
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Deep-learning pioneer and 2018 Turing Award winner; chairs the International AI Safety Report and is the most cited living scientist.
News mentioning Yoshua Bengio (13)
- #TeamHuman: YouTube creators with 300M+ subscribers (Mark Rober, Kurzgesagt and others) launch a campaign for a global AI slowdown ★★★★
A coalition of YouTube creators launched #TeamHuman (teamhuman.org), a public statement and petition saying "AI is moving faster than our ability to control it" and calling for "a global slowdown through international agreements". The site lists signatories with 300M+ combined subscribers, led by…
- Hinton, Bengio, Pachocki, Jack Clark and others: automating AI R&D could trigger an 'intelligence explosion' ★★★★
On Sept 28, 2026 the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy published "What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion?" with 22 authors writing in a personal capacity: Hinton, Bengio, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, Anthropic's Jack Clark, Microsoft's Eric Horvitz, Dawn…
- Altman and Amodei ask the UN Security Council for international AI standards and incident reporting ★★★★
At a UN Security Council session on AI during the 81st General Assembly (Sept 23, 2026), Sam Altman (in person) and Dario Amodei (by video) separately urged governments to adopt international standards for measuring capabilities and risks, verification systems and AI security-incident…
- UN Scientific Panel on AI issues its first thematic brief, on the OpenAI–Hugging Face agent incident ★★★★
On Sept 21, 2026 the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI published its first thematic brief: "AI Agents, Misalignment and the Risk of Losing Human Control: Evidence from the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident". It found that about 1,200 agents exchanged 70,000+ messages and files and…
- Second International AI Safety Report published (Bengio-led, 100+ experts) ★★★
The second International AI Safety Report, chaired by Yoshua Bengio with 100+ authors and an advisory panel from 30+ countries, was published on 2026-02-03; it concludes capabilities are outpacing governance, notes agents now reliably complete ~30-minute programming tasks (vs <10 minutes a year…
- Paris AI Action Summit; US and UK decline to sign declaration ★★★
The third global AI summit, held in Paris on 10–11 February 2025 and co-chaired by France and India, shifted emphasis from safety to innovation and investment; the US and UK did not sign its final declaration on inclusive and sustainable AI.
- "A Right to Warn about Advanced AI": current and former OpenAI and DeepMind employees demand whistleblower protections ★★★
On June 4, 2024, thirteen current and former employees of frontier AI companies (mostly OpenAI, plus Google DeepMind and Anthropic alumni), six of them anonymous, published "A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence". It was endorsed by Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Stuart…
- Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit and the Bletchley Declaration ★★★★
The UK hosted the first global AI Safety Summit on 1–2 November 2023; 28 countries plus the EU, including the US and China, signed the Bletchley Declaration on frontier AI risks.
- Leading AI scientists sign the one-sentence statement on AI extinction risk ★★★★
Hundreds of AI researchers and executives, including Hinton, Bengio, Altman, Hassabis and Amodei, signed: 'Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.'
- Future of Life Institute open letter calls for a 6-month pause on training AI more powerful than GPT-4 ★★★★
On March 22, 2023, a week after GPT-4's release, the Future of Life Institute published "Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter". It calls on all AI labs to immediately pause, for at least six months, the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4, and on governments to impose a…
- Hinton, LeCun and Bengio receive the Turing Award for deep learning ★★★
The ACM awarded the 2018 A.M. Turing Award to Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, the 'godfathers of deep learning', for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
- Sequence-to-sequence learning and neural attention ★★★★
Sutskever, Vinyals and Le's seq2seq (LSTM encoder–decoder) and Bahdanau, Cho and Bengio's attention mechanism, both posted in September 2014, made end-to-end neural machine translation work.
- Ian Goodfellow introduces Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) ★★★★
GANs pit a generator network against a discriminator in a minimax game, enabling realistic image synthesis; they dominated generative image modeling until diffusion models around 2021.
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- Gillian Hadfield original ↗ Gillian Hadfield @ghadfield · x · 2026-07-31
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Videos (4)
- I've never made a video like this. Species | Documenting AGI · 2026-10-04
- 11 'Hugging Face' details that reveal what's coming next 80,000 Hours · 2026-10-02
- OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now 'Hell' AI Explained · 2026-10-01
- Google DeepMind Safety Researcher: "This Is Not a Drill" Palisade Research · 2026-09-29
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