Co-president and scientific director of LawZero
Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio is co-president and scientific director of LawZero, a deep learning researcher and Université de Montréal professor studying AI safety.
About Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio is co-president and scientific director of LawZero, which he founded in 2025 to pursue research on safer AI. He is also a professor of computer science at Université de Montréal, founder and scientific advisor of Mila, and chair of the International AI Safety Report.
His research helped establish deep learning as a major approach to artificial intelligence. He received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun. Since 2023, his stated research focus has shifted toward reducing the risks posed by increasingly capable AI systems.
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- Hinton Points to CASP Intelligence Explosion Paper — What It Says →
On October 3, 2026 (early morning IST), Geoffrey Hinton amplified a Cambridge CASP working paper he co-authored arguing that recursive self-improvement could trigger an intelligence explosion quite soon. explainx.ai reads the paper itself — authors, stated timelines, frictions, and what builders should do differently — without inventing a year the authors did not give.
- Blue Cross Links $942M Hospital Costs to AI Medical Coding →
On September 24, 2026, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association reported that rising inpatient coding intensity added an estimated $942 million in costs for Blue plans in 2024–2025 versus a 2023 baseline — and pointed to ambient scribes and record-scanning AI as contributors, without alleging fraud. Hospitals, led by the AHA, say patients are sicker. explainx.ai's read for anyone shipping clinical documentation or coding automation: treat the dispute as a product-governance problem, not a headline to copy into a pitch deck.
- Trump Wants to Rename "AI" — Why the Term Has Survived Every Rebrand Since 1956 →
On September 19, 2026, President Trump posted an X poll asking whether "Artificial Intelligence" should be renamed Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence, or Supreme Intelligence — all conveniently abbreviating back to AI, SI, or EI. The poll landed one day after Gavin Newsom signed an executive order studying an AI "kill switch," and hours before Trump announced an "AI Force" and AI czar. Here's the actual 70-year history of people trying to rename AI, and why "artificial intelligence" always wins.
- Anthropic and Accenture Commit $1B Each to Embedded AI Evaluation →
Anthropic announced a partnership with Accenture on September 18, 2026 to embed independent evaluators inside Anthropic itself — the first concrete step toward the commitment Dario Amodei made in his "We Must Pace the Frontier" essay. Both companies expect to invest at least $1 billion over five years. Here's what embedded evaluation actually means, what access it grants, and what's still unresolved.