Visionary:Yoshua Bengio

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Yoshua Bengio[edit]

Biography[edit]

Turing Award winner, scientific director of Mila, advocate for beneficial AI.

Category[edit]

AI Researcher

Notable Quotes[edit]

On AI Governance and Regulation[edit]

"We need to treat AI safety as seriously as we treat nuclear safety."[1]

On Network Effects and Platform Monopolies[edit]

"The concentration of AI power in a few companies is dangerous for democracy."[1]

On Human Capital in Age of AI[edit]

"Consciousness might emerge from the right kind of information processing, including in machines."[1]

On Productivity Paradox in Digital Age[edit]

"We need AI systems that can reason about cause and effect, not just correlations."[2]

On Creative Destruction in AI Era[edit]

"Climate change and AI are the two most important challenges of our time, and they're connected."[1]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Yoshua Bengio, United Nations AI for Good Summit (2023), July 6, 2023, Geneva Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "ref_2023_1" defined multiple times with different content
  2. Yoshua Bengio, NeurIPS Keynote (2022), November 28, 2022, New Orleans