Professor Yoshua Bengio is the most cited living scientist across all fields and recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, considered to be the "Nobel Prize of computing." He is the Co-President and Scientific Director of LawZero, a nonprofit dedicated to developing safe-by-design AI systems as a global public good. Independent of market pressure, LawZero is supported by the Gates Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, Founders Pledge, among others. The organization was incubated by Mila, the Quebec AI Institute, which Bengio founded.
A professor at Université de Montréal, Yoshua Bengio co-chairs the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI and chairs the International AI Safety Report, backed by more than 30 countries and international organisations, including the EU, OECD and UN. Professor Bengio is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada. He has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, Officer of the Order of the British Empire and a Knight of the Legion of Honor of France.