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‘AI Godfather’ Yoshua Bengio: We Need A Humanity Defense Organization

The main artery in Montreal’s Little Italy is lined with cafes, wine bars, and pastry shops that spill into tree-lined, residential side streets. Generations of farmers, butchers, bakers, and fishmongers sell farm-to-table goods in the neighborhood’s large, open-air market, the Marché Jean-Talon. But the quiet enclave also accommodates a modern, 90,000-square-foot global AI hub known as Mila–Quebec AI Institute. Mila claims to house the largest concentration of deep learning academic researchers in the world, including more than 1,000 researchers and more than 100 professors who work with more than 100 industry partners from around the globe.

This article was written by Susan D’Agostino and originally published by The Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists.

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