Category: Climate change

The complexity of the climate change challenge

The complexity of the climate change challenge

Published 27 September 2021 by yoshuabengio

I was at the Montreal climate march on Friday Sept 24th, 2021 with a bunch of Mila folk and it got me thinking again and…

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Bringing future societal impact into present incentives

Bringing future societal impact into present incentives

Published 27 July 2021 by yoshuabengio

In my previous blog entry, I discussed how when each person or corporation maximizes their individual interests, it can easily end up with most of…

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Yoshua Bengio’s blog – first words

Yoshua Bengio’s blog – first words

Published 10 February 2020 by yoshuabengio

I often write comments and posts on social media but these tend to be only temporarily visible, so I thought I needed a place to…

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Recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bengio is most known for his pioneering work in deep learning, earning him the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.

He is Full Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. He co-directs the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program as Senior Fellow and acts as Scientific Director of IVADO.

In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Killam Prize and in 2022, became the computer scientist with the highest impact in the world as measured by h-index. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada, Knight of the Legion of Honor of France, Officer of the Order of Canada, Member of the UN’s Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology since 2023 and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair.

Concerned about the social impact of AI, he actively contributed to the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence

In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Killam Prize and for several years has been the computer scientist with the greatest impact in terms of citations, as measured by the h-index. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada, Knight of the Legion of Honor of France, Officer of the Order of Canada, Member of the UN’s Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology since 2023 and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair.

Concerned about the social impact of AI, he actively contributed to the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence and currently chairs the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI.