Yoshua Bengio

Co-founder and Scientific Director of LawZero

Canadian computer scientist and one of the 'Godfathers of Deep Learning' who won the 2018 Turing Award. Professor at Université de Montréal and founding scientific advisor of Mila. In June 2025, launched LawZero, a $30 million nonprofit dedicated to safe-by-design AI research and addressing existential risks from advanced AI systems.