Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio

A Canadian computer scientist whose research on neural language models and deep learning, alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, with whom he shared the 2018 Turing Award, helped establish the techniques behind today's large language models. In recent years Bengio has become a prominent voice on AI safety, co-authoring international reports on the risks of advanced AI systems. (See also: Geoffrey Hinton, AI alignment)