Visionary:Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio
Biography
Turing Award winner, scientific director of Mila, advocate for beneficial AI.
Category
AI Researcher
Notable Quotes
On AI Governance and Regulation
"We need to treat AI safety as seriously as we treat nuclear safety."
—Yoshua Bengio, United Nations AI for Good Summit (2023), July 6, 2023, Geneva
On Network Effects and Platform Monopolies
"The concentration of AI power in a few companies is dangerous for democracy."
—Yoshua Bengio, Montreal AI Ethics Institute (2023), September 15, 2023
On Human Capital in Age of AI
"Consciousness might emerge from the right kind of information processing, including in machines."
—Yoshua Bengio, The Gradient Podcast (2023), October 20, 2023, Episode 45
On Productivity Paradox in Digital Age
"We need AI systems that can reason about cause and effect, not just correlations."
—Yoshua Bengio, NeurIPS Keynote (2022), November 28, 2022, New Orleans
On Creative Destruction in AI Era
"Climate change and AI are the two most important challenges of our time, and they're connected."
—Yoshua Bengio, Nature Climate Change (2023), April 2023