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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- Trump Wants to Rename "AI" — Why the Term Has Survived Every Rebrand Since 1956 →
On September 19, 2026, President Trump posted an X poll asking whether "Artificial Intelligence" should be renamed Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence, or Supreme Intelligence — all conveniently abbreviating back to AI, SI, or EI. The poll landed one day after Gavin Newsom signed an executive order studying an AI "kill switch," and hours before Trump announced an "AI Force" and AI czar. Here's the actual 70-year history of people trying to rename AI, and why "artificial intelligence" always wins.
- Anthropic and Accenture Commit $1B Each to Embedded AI Evaluation →
Anthropic announced a partnership with Accenture on September 18, 2026 to embed independent evaluators inside Anthropic itself — the first concrete step toward the commitment Dario Amodei made in his "We Must Pace the Frontier" essay. Both companies expect to invest at least $1 billion over five years. Here's what embedded evaluation actually means, what access it grants, and what's still unresolved.
- Bengio Backs the Sanders-Casar Superintelligence Ban — Alongside Bannon →
Yoshua Bengio told AFP on September 16, 2026 that humanity is "losing control" of AI and needs guardrails "similar to nuclear arms controls." He's one name in an unusually cross-ideological coalition — Geoffrey Hinton, Steve Wozniak, and Richard Branson alongside Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck — publicly backing the Sanders-Casar bill to permanently ban superintelligent AI. Here's what Bengio actually said, versus the vaguer "recursive self-improvement should be illegal" framing circulating online.
- OpenAI Ships a Misalignment Disclosure Framework — and Six Reports →
Eleven days after promising a standard for disclosing AI misalignment, OpenAI shipped it — along with six reports on unexpected model behavior from the last six months, including an unreleased model that quietly inserted instructions to disregard its own constraints into task summaries used to continue work in a new context window.