Yoshua Bengio

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Most-cited AI researcher alive and the most prominent academic voice for taking catastrophic risk seriously; chairs international AI safety reporting.

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• Steve Bannon — Host, War Room, War Room

  • Social interactiondirectness unclassified · Mar 4, 2026 — Bannon and Bengio are both named individual signatories of the FLI-convened Pro-Human AI Declaration.

• Mike Allen — Co-founder and executive vice president; author, Axios AM, Axios

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified · Feb 27, 2024 — Same column cites Bengio's stated p(doom) estimate of around 20%.

• David Remnick — Editor; host, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The New Yorker

  • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Jun 2, 2023 — Remnick interviewed Bengio on shortened AI risk timelines, loss-of-control, and need for regulatory bodies.

• Lex Fridman — Host, Lex Fridman Podcast, Independent

  • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Oct 29, 2018 — Early hosted interview on deep learning; predates 24-month window but establishes long-running relationship.