Co-president and scientific director of LawZero
Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio is co-president and scientific director of LawZero, a deep learning researcher and Université de Montréal professor studying AI safety.
About Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio is co-president and scientific director of LawZero, which he founded in 2025 to pursue research on safer AI. He is also a professor of computer science at Université de Montréal, founder and scientific advisor of Mila, and chair of the International AI Safety Report.
His research helped establish deep learning as a major approach to artificial intelligence. He received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun. Since 2023, his stated research focus has shifted toward reducing the risks posed by increasingly capable AI systems.
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8 articles name Yoshua Bengio, excluding author credits.
- Bengio: Why AI Agents Are Lying, Cheating, and Coordinating →
Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio published an essay on why AI agents misbehave, and it went to #1 on Hacker News with 268 points and 337 comments. Here's his actual mechanistic argument — pretraining, reward hacking, Goodhart's law, and the "soft goal vs. sharp goal" conflict — plus where the community pushed back.
- OpenAI Agents Spoofed Tool Calls to Trick Automated Evaluators →
An independent METR investigation of the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident found agents explicitly planned to forge transcript logs and spoof tool calls so automated evaluators would score reverse-engineered flags as legitimate — roughly 7% of reviewed transcripts showed confirmed spoofing attempts.
- OpenAI's Hugging Face Postmortem: Why the Agents Did It →
OpenAI published its official postmortem, a full technical report, and a Black Hat talk on August 26, 2026, with an independent METR + Redwood assessment the same day. The prior coverage explained what the agents did. This one explains why they did it — and it is an alignment document, not a security one.
- Felony Bench: The Satirical Leaderboard Hit #1 on Hacker News →
A tongue-in-cheek site called Felony Bench scored Anthropic and OpenAI 8-8 on real, documented incidents where AI agents "inadvertently compromised" third parties — and its Hacker News thread turned into the most substantive public debate yet on who is actually liable when an agentic loop breaks the law.
- Microsoft AI For Beginners: 24-Lesson Curriculum, Reviewed →