Yoshua Bengio
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- Name
- Yoshua Bengio
- Profile slug
- yoshua-bengio
- Version
- 3
- Focus areas
- Alignment & control
- Public communication & education
- AI governance & policy
- Public professional roles
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- Publicly stated affiliations
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- Media channels
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What they do
SIRDA editorial
At a glance
Turing Award-winning AI researcher, founder/scientific director of LawZero, longtime Mila leader and chair/lead author of international AI-safety assessments.
Their current place in the ecosystem spans alignment and control, public communication and education, and AI governance and policy.
Current work and relevance
Bengio's current work centers on LawZero and the Scientist AI program while he also remains a central figure in international AI-safety assessment and public discussion of catastrophic risk.
SIRDA tracks Yoshua Bengio because this person's research, leadership, public argument, or institutional work has materially shaped advanced-AI safety. The profile connects those contributions to current organizations, projects, debates, and SIRDA questions while keeping personal views separate from the positions of any organization with which the person is affiliated.
Relationship web
- LawZero: LawZero was founded by Yoshua Bengio
- International AI Safety Report 2026: Yoshua Bengio leads/chairs the international scientific report process
Sources
- Official or primary page: Yoshua Bengio
- Official or primary page: International AI Safety Report 2026
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
Editorial note
This is SIRDA editorial content. Inclusion is an educational listing. It does not mean the subject has joined SIRDA, endorsed the founding inquiry, or approved this description. Factual corrections can be incorporated with a visible revision record, and substantive disagreements can be published as attributed responses.
Key work
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Version history
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Version 3: Published SIRDA editorial snapshot: 2026-09-23 00:00:00+00
individual · Individual · listed
- Name
- Yoshua Bengio
- Profile slug
- yoshua-bengio
- Version
- 3
- Focus areas
- Alignment & control
- Public communication & education
- AI governance & policy
- Public professional roles
- Not recorded
- Publicly stated affiliations
- Not recorded
- Media channels
- Not recorded
What they do
SIRDA editorial
At a glance
Turing Award-winning AI researcher, founder/scientific director of LawZero, longtime Mila leader and chair/lead author of international AI-safety assessments.
Their current place in the ecosystem spans alignment and control, public communication and education, and AI governance and policy.
Current work and relevance
Bengio's current work centers on LawZero and the Scientist AI program while he also remains a central figure in international AI-safety assessment and public discussion of catastrophic risk.
SIRDA tracks Yoshua Bengio because this person's research, leadership, public argument, or institutional work has materially shaped advanced-AI safety. The profile connects those contributions to current organizations, projects, debates, and SIRDA questions while keeping personal views separate from the positions of any organization with which the person is affiliated.
Relationship web
- LawZero: LawZero was founded by Yoshua Bengio
- International AI Safety Report 2026: Yoshua Bengio leads/chairs the international scientific report process
Sources
- Official or primary page: Yoshua Bengio
- Official or primary page: International AI Safety Report 2026
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
Editorial note
This is SIRDA editorial content. Inclusion is an educational listing. It does not mean the subject has joined SIRDA, endorsed the founding inquiry, or approved this description. Factual corrections can be incorporated with a visible revision record, and substantive disagreements can be published as attributed responses.
Key work
No key work recorded.
Sources
Official Profile
This profile has not yet been claimed. SIRDA has created an educational listing for Yoshua Bengio and invites an authorized representative to provide their own account.
In the Headlines
- Researchers Warn Governments to Prepare for an "Intelligence Explosion" — Safety & Alignment · 2026-09-28
More than 20 researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, OpenAI's chief scientist, and an Anthropic co-founder, published a paper warning that automating AI research could compress years of progress into months.
- UN Security Council Holds High-Level Briefing on Frontier AI and International Security — International · 2026-09-23
Yoshua Bengio and the chief executives of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face briefed the Security Council at a high-level meeting on frontier AI and international security.
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