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Reasoning through arguments against taking AI safety seriously

Published 9 July 2024 by yoshuabengio

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…

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The International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI

The International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI

Published 19 June 2024 by yoshuabengio

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…

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Proposal for a Multilateral Network of Public Good AI Research Labs to Protect Democracy and Humanity

Proposal for a Multilateral Network of Public Good AI Research Labs to Protect Democracy and Humanity

Published 12 September 2023 by yoshuabengio

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…

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Slowing down development of AI systems passing the Turing test

Published 5 April 2023 by yoshuabengio

I recently signed an open letter asking to slow down the development of giant AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 –those that currently pass the…

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Scaling in the service of reasoning & model-based ML

Scaling in the service of reasoning & model-based ML

Published 21 March 2023 by yoshuabengio

Co-written with my PhD student Edward J. Hu. Scaling seems to work really well. We must be cautious in pursuing research directions that build knowledge…

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Generative Flow Networks

Published 5 March 2022 by yoshuabengio

(see gflownet tutorial and paper list here) I have rarely been as enthusiastic about a new research direction. We call them GFlowNets, for Generative Flow…

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Superintelligence: Futurology vs. Science

Published 24 January 2022 by yoshuabengio

We sometimes come across catchy headlines about AI that can scare or excite us, such as “By the middle of this century, artificial intelligence will…

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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, and making him the computer scientist with the largest number of citations and h-index.

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

He received numerous awards, including the prestigious Killam Prize and Herzberg Gold medal in Canada, CIFAR’s AI Chair, Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award, the VinFuture Prize and 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. Yoshua Bengio was named in 2024 one of TIME’s magazine 100 most influential people in the world.

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 AI Safety Report.