Artificial Atlas

Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.

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Yoshua Bengio

Researcher

Turing laureate for deep learning and the most cited computer scientist alive. 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.

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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.

Sources Introducing LawZero yoshuabengio.org 2025-06-03 · LawZero Wikipedia 2026-09-05

Works in

  1. Jun 2025 – now
    LawZero, Founder and scientific director
    Across camps
    Sources Introducing LawZero yoshuabengio.org 2025-06-03 · LawZero Wikipedia 2026-09-05
  2. dates not recorded
    Mila and Université de Montréal, Professor; founder, Mila
    Across camps
    Sources Yoshua Bengio Wikipedia 2026-09-05