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The complexity of the climate change challenge

I was at the Montreal climate march on Friday Sept 24th, 2021

September 27 2021

Bringing future societal impact into present incentives

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 us losing, and how this is at the heart of major market failures, like those involving pollution and climate change.

When Maximizing Individual Interests Can Make Us All Lose (usually some losing more than others)

Many experts, but not enough people, are well aware that markets can fail to achieve the goal of maximizing long-term wealth, and indeed they do fail, in ways that threaten us all in the years and decades to come (the most vulnerable or unlucky being likely to suffer more).

Science and innovation in times of a pandemic

Mila’s COVI project has found itself at the centre of a public debate regarding the use of an app in the fight against COVID-19.

Peer-to-peer AI-tracing of COVID-19

Social distancing works but in its simplest form it is brutal and economically very damaging. We have already seen how tracing and testing can greatly improve it by applying social distancing at the right places, around infected people.

Time to rethink the publication process in machine learning

I am on the NeurIPS advisory board and on the ICLR board, and I have been involved in the organization of these conferences at all levels, for many years.

February 26 2020

Yoshua Bengio's blog - first words

J’écris souvent des commentaires ou des messages dans les médias sociaux, mais, généralement, on ne peut les voir que pendant un temps limité. J’ai donc pensé que j’avais besoin d’un endroit où consigner certaines de mes pensées afin qu’elles soient accessibles en tout temps et plus faciles à trouver.

February 10 2020