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Yoshua Bengio

Computer scientist, Université de Montréal
Signed the letter · Academia · Canada

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Computer scientist at the Université de Montréal. Author of work on deep learning, including the 2015 Nature review 'Deep Learning' (with Yann LeCun and Geoffrey Hinton) and the paper 'Generative Adversarial Networks'. Co-recipient of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.

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28 works in the co-authorship map · 176,040 citations across them

Sources

  1. Deep learning
  2. Generative adversarial networks
  3. Yoshua Bengio — Wikipedia
  4. “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — source

In the network

20 co-authors on the map · PageRank #4 of 400 · bridge #36 of 400 · 2 steps from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: AI safety and governance.

Measured on this map only, which grows out of the letter's signatories; what these numbers mean. See Yoshua Bengio on the map

Documented positions

Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Will AI widen inequality? unknown

No documented evidence reviewed yet.

Should governments act on AI now? agrees

Leading advocate for AI governance: chairs the International AI Safety Report and argues for compute governance and international institutions for advanced AI.

Evidence

  1. Computing Power and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence
  2. International Institutions for Advanced AI
  3. International Al Safety Report: First Key Update Capabilities and Risk Implications

Why researchers disagree on this · Who else says what

How fast will the impact arrive? leans agree

The International AI Safety Report update he chairs states that AI capabilities change on a timescale of months or weeks.

Evidence

  1. “The field of AI is moving too quickly for a single yearly publication to keep pace. Significant changes can occur on a timescale of months, sometimes weeks.” — source

Why researchers disagree on this · Who else says what

Selected work

Writes with

Aaron Courville (4), Kyunghyun Cho (4), Sören Mindermann (4), Geoffrey E. Hinton (3), Gillian Hadfield (3), Robert Trager (3), Adrian Weller (2), Daron Acemoglu (2), Dawn Song (2), Haydn Belfield (2), Lucia Velasco (2), Maksym Andriushchenko (2)

Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (12 of 20 shown).

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