Yoshua Bengio

I am launching a new non-profit AI safety research organization called LawZero, to prioritize safety over commercial imperatives.

As highlighted in the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, the capabilities of general-purpose AI systems have been steadily increasing over the last decade, with a pronounced acceleration in the last few years.

As we move towards more powerful AI, it becomes urgent to better understand the risks, ideally in a mathematically rigorous and quantifiable way, and use that knowledge to mitigate them.

About a year ago, a few months after I publicly took a stand with many other peers to warn the public of the dangers related to the unprecedented capabilities of powerful AI systems, I posted a blog post entitled FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks as a follow-up

In November 2023, I’ve been given the responsibility to chair the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI as part of an international mandate following up from a resolution taken by 30 countries, as well as representatives from the EU…

How can we design an AI that will be highly capable and will not harm humans?

I have been thinking about this question for several months: what if AI continues to progress towards and beyond our abilities in areas where it could become dangerous, and what if our regulations won't be 100% fullproof, opening the door to seriously har…

On May 31st, 2023, a BBC web page headlined: "AI 'godfather' Yoshua Bengio feels 'lost' over life's work."

The capabilities of AI systems have steadily increased with deep learning advances for which I received a Turing Award alongside Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto) and Yann LeCun (New York University and Meta) in 2018.

I have been hearing many arguments from different people regarding catastrophic AI risks.