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Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio

Professor, University of Montreal; AI Safety Researcher

Appears in 2 stories

Notable Quotes

Frontier AI models already show signs of self-preservation in experimental settings today, and eventually giving them rights would mean we're not allowed to shut them down.

These concerning behaviors increase with the reasoning capabilities of these systems.

I'm more and more confident that it can be done in a reasonable number of years, so that there might be an impact before AI systems become so powerful that misalignment causes terrible problems.

Stories

The recursive loop begins

New Capabilities

Shifted to optimism on AI safety solutions while continuing advocacy

Google DeepMind announced in May 2025 that AlphaEvolve—an AI agent powered by Gemini—discovered a way to speed up Gemini's own training by 23%. The system found smarter matrix multiplication algorithms, shaving 1% off training time for a model that costs $191 million to train. Small numbers, massive implications: AI just started improving the process that creates AI. In January 2026, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told the World Economic Forum in Davos that genuine human-level AGI is now 'five to 10 years' away, with Google's latest Gemini 3 model topping performance leaderboards.

Updated Jan 31

AI systems cross the creativity threshold

New Capabilities

Founder and Scientific Advisor of Mila; Founder of LawZero

For decades, creativity was considered AI's final frontier—the one domain where machines could never match human ingenuity. That assumption just cracked. A study published January 21, 2026 in Scientific Reports tested 100,000 humans against nine leading AI systems on standardized creativity measures. GPT-4 outscored the typical human participant. Google's GeminiPro matched average human performance.

Updated Jan 27