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Useful background reference on Bengio as a key figure whose transition from pure capabilities research to AI safety advocacy represents an important trend among senior ML researchers; relevant for understanding the AI safety landscape and key stakeholders.
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Wikipedia biography of Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering deep learning researcher and Turing Award winner who has become one of the most prominent AI safety advocates in the field. Bengio co-founded the field of deep learning alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, and has increasingly focused on AI safety, existential risk, and governance concerns in recent years.
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- •Turing Award recipient (2018) alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for foundational contributions to deep learning
- •Professor at Université de Montréal and scientific director of Mila (Quebec AI Institute)
- •Has shifted focus significantly toward AI safety, signing open letters warning about existential risks from advanced AI
- •Advocate for AI governance and international regulation, including testimony before governments and UN bodies
- •Influential voice bridging mainstream ML capabilities research and AI safety/existential risk concerns
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Canadian computer scientist (born 1964)
Yoshua Bengio OC   OQ   OBE   FRS   FRSC Bengio at ICLR 2025 Born ( 1964-03-05 ) March 5, 1964 (age 62)
Paris , France Citizenship Canada Education McGill University ( BS , MS , PhD ) Known for
Deep learning
Neural machine translation
Generative adversarial networks
Attention models
Word embeddings
Denoising autoencoders
Language models
Learning to learn
Generative flow networks
Relatives Samy Bengio (brother) Awards Marie-Victorin Prize (2017)
Turing Award (2018)
AAAI Fellow (2019)
Legion of Honor (2022)
VinFuture Prize (2024)
Honorary Doctorate (2025) Scientific career Fields Machine learning
Deep learning
Artificial intelligence [ 1 ] Institutions Université de Montréal
MILA
Element AI Thesis Artificial Neural Networks and their Application to Sequence Recognition   (1991) Doctoral advisor Renato De Mori [ 2 ] Notable students Ian Goodfellow [ 2 ]
Website yoshuabengio .org
Yoshua Bengio OC   OQ   OBE   FRS   FRSC (born March 5, 1964 [ 3 ] ) is a Canadian computer scientist , and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He is a professor at the Université de Montréal and co-president and scientific director of the nonprofit LawZero. He founded Mila , the Quebec Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute, and was its scientific director until 2025.
Bengio received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award , often referred to as the " Nobel Prize of Computing ", together with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun , for their foundational work on deep learning. [ 7 ] Bengio, Hinton , and LeCun are sometimes referred to as the "Godfathers of AI". [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Bengio is the most-cited computer scientist globally (by both total citations and by h -index ), [ 14 ] and the most-cited living scientist across all fields (by total citations). [ 15 ] In November 2025, Bengio became the first AI researcher with more than a million Google Scholar citations. In 2024, TIME Magazine included Bengio in its yearly list of the world's 100 most influential people. [ 16 ]
Early life and education
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Bengio was born in France to a Jewish family who had emigrated to France from Morocco. The family then relocated to Canada. [ 17 ] He received his Bachelor of Science degree (electrical engineering), MSc (computer science) and PhD (computer science) from McGill University . [ 2 ] [ 18 ]
Bengio is the brother of Samy Bengio , [ 17 ] also an influential computer scientist
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