Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.
Yoshua Bengio
Researcher
Turing laureate for deep learning. Founded the nonprofit LawZero in June 2025 to build 'Scientist AI', a non-agentic system that explains and predicts but does not act, as a check on the agent-building camps. Belongs to none of them by design.
Known for Deep learning; LawZero and Scientist AI; International AI Safety Report
Argues for
Across camps Build 'Scientist AI' that explains and predicts but does not act, as a check on every camp that is building agents.
Works in
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Jun 2025 – nowLawZero, Founder and scientific director
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