Yoshua Bengio
Co-President and Scientific Director of LawZero; Full Professor at Université de Montréal
Full Professor of Computer Science, Université de Montréal · Co-President and Scientific Director, LawZero · Founder and Scientific Advisor, Mila · Chair, International AI Safety Report
Background
Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist whose work includes artificial neural networks and deep learning.
He received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.
He is a full professor at Université de Montréal and co-president and scientific director of the nonprofit LawZero.
Key facts
WYDE coverage of Yoshua Bengio
WYDE Newsroom has published 2 articles about Yoshua Bengio, from Jul 6, 2026 to Sep 24, 2026. Yoshua Bengio is a named leader in 2 stories. The most recent is AI Leaders Warn the UN Security Council That Advanced Systems Could Slip Beyond Human Control.
AI Leaders Warn the UN Security Council That Advanced Systems Could Slip Beyond Human Control
The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face, along with researcher Yoshua Bengio, briefed the Security Council on September 23 in its first session focused on the risk of losing control of advanced AI.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read · Quoted or named as leader
AIThe UN Opens Its First Global AI Governance Summit in Geneva
All 193 member states met for two days at the Global Dialogue on AI Governance, which closed with calls for an AI Child Safety Pledge, renewable-powered data centres by 2030, and a second Dialogue in New York in May 2027.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read · Quoted or named as leader
Reported alongside Yoshua Bengio
- Anthropic · in 1 story with Yoshua Bengio
- OpenAI · in 1 story with Yoshua Bengio
- United Nations · in 1 story with Yoshua Bengio
- Dario Amodei · in 1 story with Yoshua Bengio
- Donald Trump · in 1 story with Yoshua Bengio
- Sam Altman · in 1 story with Yoshua Bengio
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