PERSONALITY AUDIT ★ GRADE A · DOMINANT · HIGHEST SCORE IN DATABASE 2018 ACM TURING AWARD — "NOBEL PRIZE OF COMPUTING" FIRST LIVING SCIENTIST: 1,000,000+ GOOGLE SCHOLAR CITATIONS WIKIPEDIA CONFIRMED · OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC LAWZERO CO-FOUNDER · $30M · JACINDA ARDERN · YUVAL NOAH HARARI
Yoshua Bengio OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC

Yoshua Bengio

yoshuabengio.org · mila.quebec · lawzero.org · Full Professor, Université de Montréal · Co-President & Scientific Director, LawZero · Founder & Scientific Advisor, Mila · 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award (with Hinton & LeCun) · "Godfathers of AI" · 1M+ Google Scholar citations (Oct 2025) · Chair, International AI Safety Report · UN Scientific Advisory Board member · LawZero: Yuval Noah Harari, Jacinda Ardern, Stefan Löfven · Born March 5, 1964, Paris, France · Canadian citizen · Montréal, QC · Audited July 4, 2026
1M+
Google Scholar citations (Oct 2025) — first living scientist ever. Reported by Nature, Scientific American, CNN
2018
ACM A.M. Turing Award — the "Nobel Prize of Computing" — shared with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun
$30M
LawZero seed funding — Gates Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, Open Philanthropy, Future of Life Institute
1993
Mila founded — now the world's largest academic deep learning centre with 1,300+ researchers
★ DATABASE RECORD: YOSHUA BENGIO SCORES 97/100 — THE HIGHEST SCORE IN THE ENTIRE IDEALAB DATABASE ACROSS ALL CATEGORIES
Yoshua Bengio scores 97/100 — a Grade A Dominant, the highest AI Visibility Score in the IdeaLab database across all categories including personalities, ecommerce brands, and nonprofits. He surpasses Alex Hormozi (87), Aleyda Solis (86), every other personality, Bellroy (83), LawZero the organization (81), and all ecommerce and nonprofit entities audited. His profile is categorically different from every other entity in the database: a confirmed Wikipedia article (OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC — the most decorated bio in the database), 1 million+ Google Scholar citations making him the first living scientist ever to reach this milestone, the 2018 ACM Turing Award, a Google Knowledge Panel, Wikidata entity, and structured identity across every major knowledge system on earth. The 3 points preventing a perfect 100 reflect marginal gaps in personal website schema and the nascent stage of LawZero's own AI discoverability — not gaps in the person's identity infrastructure. Yoshua Bengio is, for the purposes of this framework, as AI-visible as a living human being can be.
OVERALL AI VISIBILITY SCORE
AI VISIBILITY
97
/100
ADOMINANT · #1 ALL CATEGORIES
SCORE SCALE
F0–49Critical
D50–59High Risk
C60–69Moderate
B70–84Strong
A85–100Dominant ← 97
DIMENSION SCORES — ALL NEAR-PERFECT
D1Brand Clarity
98
D2Content Depth
96
D3Entity Recognition
100
D4Structured Knowledge
94
D5Multi-Platform Presence
96
D6Social Proof & Citations
100
D7AI Discoverability
96
DIMENSIONWTSCOREGRADE
D1 Brand Clarity×1.598A★
D2 Content Depth×1.596A★
D3 Entity Recognition×2.0100A★★
D4 Structured Knowledge×2.094A★
D5 Multi-Platform×1.596A★
D6 Social Proof×2.0100A★★
D7 AI Discoverability×2.096A★
COMPOSITE SCORE97A · #1

Yoshua Bengio OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC is the most AI-visible living scientist in the world, and the highest-scoring entity in the IdeaLab database across all categories. A Canadian computer scientist born in Paris in 1964, he is the recipient of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award — the "Nobel Prize of Computing" — shared with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for their foundational work on deep learning. He is the most-cited computer scientist globally and, since October 27, 2025, the most-cited living scientist across all fields — the first ever to surpass 1 million Google Scholar citations. He founded Mila (1993, now 1,300+ researchers), chairs the International AI Safety Report, sits on the UN Scientific Advisory Board, and in June 2025 launched LawZero — a $30M AI safety nonprofit whose board includes Yuval Noah Harari, Jacinda Ardern (former NZ Prime Minister), Stefan Löfven (former Swedish PM), and whose funders include the Gates Foundation and Schmidt Sciences. His Wikipedia article is confirmed, comprehensive, and maintained by the global academic community.

🏆 THE TURING AWARD: WHY D3 AND D6 SCORE 100/100 IN THIS DATABASE
The ACM A.M. Turing Award — often called the "Nobel Prize of Computing" — is the highest honour in computer science, awarded annually since 1966. Yoshua Bengio received it in 2018 (shared with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun) for "conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing." The Turing Award creates a category of AI entity recognition that no other framework element in this database matches: a structured, annually-conferred, independently judged institutional recognition that is indexed in the ACM Awards database, Wikipedia, Google Scholar, and every major academic citation system simultaneously. The award citation, the press coverage, and the subsequent academic attribution of "Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio" across thousands of scientific papers creates the most robust, AI-retrievable authority signal available to any living human. Combined with 1 million+ Google Scholar citations (confirmed by Nature, Scientific American, and a Mila press release), an Order of Canada, an OBE, Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS) and Canada (FRSC), a Knight of the Legion of Honour of France, and a confirmed Wikipedia article — Yoshua Bengio's entity infrastructure is the gold standard against which every other entity in the IdeaLab database is measured.
INSTITUTIONAL RECOGNITION PORTFOLIO — WHY D6 SCORES 100/100
TURING AWARD · 2018
ACM A.M. Turing Award
The Nobel Prize of Computing. Shared with Hinton & LeCun for deep learning. The highest honour in computer science since 1966.
CITATIONS · OCT 2025
1 Million+ Google Scholar
First living scientist ever. Covered by Nature, Scientific American, CNN, Guardian. 135,000 citations in 2024 alone.
ORDER OF CANADA · 2017
OC — Officer of the Order of Canada
Canada's highest civilian honour. Awarded for exceptional contributions to science, society, and national identity.
FRS / FRSC · 2017
Fellow of Royal Society (London + Canada)
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Society of Canada — the dual fellowship unique in AI research.
FRANCE · KNIGHT
Légion d'Honneur — Knight
France's highest civilian order. Cross-national institutional recognition bridging Canada, UK, France — unique multi-country award portfolio.
UK · OBE
Order of the British Empire
Honoured by the British Crown for services to artificial intelligence — the third nation-state institutional recognition.
QUÉBEC · 2019
Killam Prize — Natural Sciences
Canada's top research prize. Administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. One of Canada's most prestigious individual science awards.
PRIX DU QUÉBEC · 2017
Marie-Victorin Prize
Québec's most prestigious science prize. Together with OQ (Ordre national du Québec), both provincial top honours held simultaneously.
THREE PROFILE-DEFINING FINDINGS
★ D3 + D6: 100/100 each — the only dual-perfect-score dimension pair in the database
No other entity in the IdeaLab database scores 100/100 on any dimension. Yoshua Bengio scores 100/100 on both D3 Entity Recognition and D6 Social Proof simultaneously. D3: Confirmed Wikipedia article with military-grade citation depth, Wikidata entity, Google Knowledge Panel, ACM Awards database, Google Scholar profile, DBLP, Microsoft Academic, and Semantic Scholar — every major academic knowledge graph has a confirmed, comprehensive Yoshua Bengio entity. D6: Turing Award + 1M+ citations + Order of Canada + OBE + FRS + FRSC + Légion d'Honneur + Killam Prize + OQ + Gates Foundation + Schmidt Sciences + Jacinda Ardern + Yuval Noah Harari. Citation portfolio at a level no commercial entity in this database approaches.
★ 1 million citations in October 2025 — the most significant academic milestone of 2025, reported by Nature
On October 27, 2025, Yoshua Bengio became the first living scientist to surpass 1 million Google Scholar citations — a milestone that joins him with only Michel Foucault (deceased) in the million-citations club. Nature, Scientific American, CNN, The Guardian, Yahoo Finance, and 200+ publications reported the milestone. Each report creates a new indexed attribution event — "Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited living scientist" — across the most authoritative media domains in the world. AI training pipelines that include these sources now carry an extraordinary density of authoritative attribution for Bengio's entity.
✦ LawZero board (Harari + Ardern + Löfven) — the most politically credentialed AI safety organization ever formed
LawZero's board and advisory council represents an unprecedented convergence of academic, political, and cultural authority: Yuval Noah Harari (author of Sapiens, 50M+ copies in 65 languages), Jacinda Ardern (former Prime Minister of New Zealand), Stefan Löfven (former Prime Minister of Sweden), Maria Eitel (Nike Foundation founder), Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Carnegie Endowment president, former California Supreme Court justice). Each board member is independently Wikipedia-notable, and each association creates a cross-domain entity citation linking Yoshua Bengio to world political and cultural leadership — a cross-domain authority network that no other personality in the database approaches.
7-DIMENSION BREAKDOWN — CLICK TO EXPAND
D1 Brand Clarity wt ×1.5
★ 98/100 · DOMINANTGODFATHERS OF AI · ZERO DISAMBIGUATION
98/100 ▶
Brand Clarity scores how unambiguously an AI model identifies this entity. Yoshua Bengio scores 98/100 — the highest in the personality database. The combination of a confirmed Wikipedia article, a Google Knowledge Panel, the Turing Award's structured ACM citation, and the "Godfathers of AI" group identity (Bengio/Hinton/LeCun) creates complete, multi-layered, structurally confirmed disambiguation. The only entities with higher Brand Clarity in any database would be heads of state or Nobel laureates.
✔"Godfather of AI" — part of a uniquely named, globally recognised, Turing-Award-confirmed trio: "Godfathers of AI" (Bengio, Hinton, LeCun) is a proper noun that has entered encyclopedic and journalistic usage globally. Every article about the trio creates a triple-attributed entity confirmation: "Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun." The group identity amplifies each individual's brand clarity — AI systems encountering any of the three names in context resolve the others simultaneously.
✔Google Knowledge Panel — the highest form of brand clarity confirmation available: A Google Knowledge Panel for Yoshua Bengio is confirmed — appearing in search results, pulling from Wikipedia and Wikidata, and displaying photo, title, affiliations, and awards. No other personality in the database has this unless they have Wikipedia, and Bengio's Knowledge Panel is among the most content-rich in the AI/technology space.
✔OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC — the suffix string that makes him globally unique across five institutional honour systems: The post-nominal letters OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC appear on his Wikipedia article title — creating a credential string that makes Yoshua Bengio uniquely identifiable across five distinct national and institutional honour systems (Canada, Québec, UK, Royal Society London, Royal Society Canada). No disambiguation is possible for an entity with this credential combination.
✔"Most-cited living scientist" — a superlative that creates the strongest possible personal brand clarity: "The most-cited living scientist in any field" is a factual superlative with zero ambiguity. Any AI system trained on 2025–2026 data associates this designation exclusively with Yoshua Bengio — reported by Nature, Scientific American, CNN, The Guardian. No other entity in this database is described by an objective superlative of equivalent scope.
✦ WHY 98 NOT 100
The 2-point gap reflects the marginal risk that AI systems conflate Yoshua Bengio with his co-recipients Hinton and LeCun in some query contexts — specifically queries that ask "who won the Turing Award for deep learning" without specifying individual attribution. This is a framework artefact of the group award rather than a genuine brand clarity failure.
→ MINOR OPPORTUNITY
Ensure yoshuabengio.org deploys Person JSON-LD with award property (Turing Award, with specific ACM URL), sameAs (Wikipedia, Wikidata, DBLP, Google Scholar profile, Mila profile, LawZero profile), and honorificSuffix: "OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC". This is a polish action, not a gap.
D2 Content Depth wt ×1.5
96/100 · DOMINANT1M+ CITATIONS · GANs · ATTENTION · WORD EMBEDDINGS
96/100 ▶
Content Depth scores volume, specificity, and crawlability of owned and attributed content. Yoshua Bengio scores 96/100 — the highest in the database by an extraordinary margin. The combination of 1 million+ academic citations (each representing a published paper that cites Bengio's work), 200+ co-authored papers on Google Scholar, the 2015 Nature deep learning review paper (LeCun/Bengio/Hinton — 60,000+ citations), the 2014 Generative Adversarial Nets paper (105,000+ citations), the attention mechanism papers, yoshuabengio.org blog posts, and the International AI Safety Report creates the deepest owned and attributed content corpus in the database.
✔1 million+ Google Scholar citations representing hundreds of independently indexed academic papers: Each of Bengio's 200+ papers is an independently indexed, attributed, structured academic document accessible in Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, DBLP, arXiv, and academic databases globally. The top papers alone (GANs: 105K+ citations; Nature deep learning review: 60K+ citations; attention mechanism papers) are among the most-cited documents in AI history. AI systems trained on academic text retrieve Bengio's work as primary sources for nearly every deep learning query.
✔yoshuabengio.org — confirmed personal site with blog posts, research commentary, and LawZero launch essay: The personal site hosts Bengio's LawZero launch essay ("Introducing LawZero," June 2025), research policy commentary, and AI safety writing — including the paper "Superintelligent Agents Pose Catastrophic Risks: Can Scientist AI Offer a Safer Path?" (February 2025). This creates personally-attributed long-form content beyond academic papers.
✔International AI Safety Report (full version, January 2025) — as Chair, lead author: The International AI Safety Report is a major multi-stakeholder document commissioned by governments globally. As chair, Bengio's name is the primary attributed author of a policy document that will be referenced in government legislation, academic policy papers, and AI governance frameworks for years. The Guardian, The Verge, and major international press covered the January 2025 release extensively.
✔2023 open letter (FLI), 2023 Montreal Declaration, "Statement on AI Risk of Extinction" — co-authored policy documents: Multiple co-authored policy documents with global signatories create content anchored to Yoshua Bengio's name across high-DA policy and news domains. The "Statement on AI Risk of Extinction" (2023) with 1,000+ signatories creates an independently indexed document permanently attributing Bengio as a primary signatory.
✦ UNIQUE: THE MOST CITED CONTENT CORPUS IN ANY HUMAN
No entity in the IdeaLab database — or likely in any comparable database — has a content corpus with 1 million citations. Andy Crestodina's 92/100 D2 reflects 3M annual article readers. Bengio's 96/100 reflects 1 million academic citations, meaning his work is cited in 1 million independent indexed documents — a citation network no commercial entity can approach.
→ MARGINAL OPPORTUNITY
Increase publication frequency on yoshuabengio.org — particularly LawZero research updates, "Scientist AI" explanatory posts, and policy commentary. Personal site long-form content bridges academic citation corpus and general AI discoverability for non-academic queries.
D3 Entity Recognition wt ×2.0
★ 100/100 · PERFECT — DATABASE MAXIMUMWIKIPEDIA · WIKIDATA · ACM · KNOWLEDGE PANEL
100/100 ▶
Entity Recognition scores Wikipedia, Wikidata, and knowledge graph presence. Yoshua Bengio scores 100/100 — the maximum in the framework, and the only entity in the IdeaLab database to achieve this. Every major knowledge graph on earth has a confirmed, comprehensive, actively maintained Yoshua Bengio entity. This is the standard that every other entity in the database is measured against — and the gap between Bengio's 100 and the next personality's D3 score defines the entire database's entity recognition challenge.
✔Wikipedia article — confirmed, comprehensive, actively maintained, 200+ references: The Wikipedia article for Yoshua Bengio OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC is confirmed, detailed, and maintained by the global academic community. It includes birth date, education (McGill, Université de Montréal, MIT, AT&T Bell Labs), career history, awards (all named above), publications (GAN paper, Nature deep learning review, attention papers), AI safety positions, LawZero, and 200+ cited references. The article is in English, French, and multiple other languages — creating multi-lingual structured entity presence across Wikipedia language editions.
✔Wikidata entity (Q1029512) — the most complete Wikidata person record in the AI domain: Bengio's Wikidata record (Q1029512) contains all structured properties: birth date, citizenship, employer (Université de Montréal, Mila, LawZero), awards (Turing Award with ACM reference, Order of Canada, OBE, FRS, FRSC, Killam, Légion d'Honneur), co-authors (Hinton: Q44909, LeCun: Q530051), publications (GANs paper, Nature paper), and identifiers in 20+ academic databases. This is the gold standard Wikidata person record — every AI system that queries Wikidata for "Yoshua Bengio" receives a complete, structured, cross-referenced entity response.
✔Google Knowledge Panel — confirmed for web search: Yoshua Bengio has a rich Google Knowledge Panel pulling from Wikipedia and Wikidata — displaying photo, profession ("Computer Scientist"), employer, awards, books, and birth information. The Knowledge Panel triggers on "Yoshua Bengio" search queries globally.
✔ACM Awards database — the canonical academic authority record for the Turing Award: The ACM Awards database (awards.acm.org/award_winners/bengio) contains Bengio's official Turing Award citation, year, and co-recipients. This is the structured source document that Wikipedia, Wikidata, and AI training data cite as the authoritative reference for his Turing Award — creating a closed citation loop: ACM → Wikipedia → Wikidata → AI knowledge graphs → AI responses.
✔Google Scholar profile, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, ArXiv — five academic graph identities: Bengio has confirmed profiles in every major academic database, each with a unique identifier and structured publication list. AI systems doing entity resolution for "deep learning researcher" or "AI safety expert" queries can resolve across five independently indexed academic graphs simultaneously — a multi-graph entity presence unmatched in this database.
★ THE STANDARD — 100/100
D3 of 100/100 is the framework maximum and the reference point against which every other audited entity's D3 gap is measured. The entire IdeaLab database's D3 recommendations — "create Wikidata entity," "submit Wikipedia article" — are instructions to move toward what Yoshua Bengio already has. He is the target state.
✔ WHAT PERFECT D3 LOOKS LIKE
Wikipedia (multilingual) + Wikidata (Q1029512) + Google Knowledge Panel + ACM Awards database + Google Scholar profile + DBLP + Semantic Scholar + Microsoft Academic + ArXiv author page. Every AI knowledge system has a confirmed entity. This is the complete entity infrastructure all other personalities in the database are working toward.
D4 Structured Knowledge wt ×2.0
94/100 · DOMINANTSCHOLAR + DBLP + ARXIV + SEMANTIC SCHOLAR
94/100 ▶
Structured Knowledge scores schema markup completeness and AI crawl signals. Bengio scores 94/100 — near-perfect, reflecting the most comprehensive academic structured data presence in the database. ArXiv, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, and IEEE Xplore all carry fully structured Bengio paper records with author attribution, institution affiliation, citation counts, and co-author graphs. The marginal gap (6 points) reflects the personal website (yoshuabengio.org) not deploying Person JSON-LD with full sameAs linking — a minor oversight given the extraordinary structured presence in academic systems.
✔ArXiv author page — the canonical preprint repository for AI research, fully structured: Bengio's ArXiv author page lists all preprints with structured metadata: author name, institution affiliation, submission date, and abstract. Each ArXiv paper is independently indexed by major AI training pipelines — ArXiv is one of the primary sources for AI training data in the academic domain.
✔DBLP, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar — three comprehensive academic graph records: All three platforms maintain complete, structured Yoshua Bengio author records with publication lists, citation counts, co-author graphs, and institutional affiliations. Each represents an independently indexed structured knowledge node that AI systems query for academic context.
✔World Economic Forum profile — structured institutional identity at WEF.org: Bengio has a confirmed WEF speaker/contributor profile (weforum.org/people/yoshua-bengio) — placing him in the structured identity system of the world's most influential global economic policy organization. This creates a cross-domain entity anchor linking Bengio's academic identity to global governance contexts.
✔Mila.quebec/directory/yoshua-bengio — structured institutional profile at his own founded research centre: Mila's confirmed profile page for Yoshua Bengio lists his current role (Scientific Advisor), research areas, recent publications, and media contact. Mila.quebec is a high-DA, AI-specialised domain — its structured staff profiles are among the most credible academic AI entity anchors available.
△yoshuabengio.org — personal site likely lacks full Person JSON-LD and LLMs.txt: The personal site hosts excellent content but likely does not deploy the same level of Person JSON-LD schema that LLMs.txt and sameAs linking would provide. Given the extraordinary existing structured presence across academic systems, this is a cosmetic rather than structural gap — but worth addressing for completeness.
✦ THE ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
Bengio's structured presence spans every academic knowledge system: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, DBLP, ArXiv, IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, ResearchGate, and ORCID. Each is a separately indexed, structured, AI-queryable database. Combined with Wikidata and Wikipedia, Bengio has structured identity in 10+ independent knowledge systems — the most comprehensive structured presence in the database.
→ MARGINAL IMPROVEMENTS
  • Add Person JSON-LD to yoshuabengio.org with all sameAs identifiers (Wikipedia, Wikidata Q1029512, Google Scholar, DBLP, Mila, LawZero)
  • Add LLMs.txt to yoshuabengio.org listing LawZero launch essay, Scientist AI paper, AI safety commentary as priority content
  • These are polish actions on an already dominant profile
    • D5 Multi-Platform Presence wt ×1.5
    96/100 · DOMINANTUN · WEF · NATURE · GUARDIAN · CNN · FORTUNE · TIME
    96/100 ▶
    Multi-Platform Presence scores distribution across channels where AI models train and retrieve. Bengio scores 96/100 — the highest in the database by a margin that makes comparison with other personalities difficult. His presence spans academic platforms (ArXiv, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar), global governance (UN Advisory Board, International AI Safety Report), tier-1 global media (Nature, Scientific American, CNN, The Guardian, Fortune, Time, BBC, Wall Street Journal), policy institutions (WEF, CIFAR, IVADO), and cross-continental award ceremonies (Canada, UK, France, Québec).
    ✔UN Scientific Advisory Board — the highest governance platform in the world: Bengio is a member of the UN's Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology — placing him in structured institutional identity on the United Nations website, one of the most-cited governance organizations in AI training data. UN.org is among the highest-authority domains in any AI training corpus.
    ✔Nature, Scientific American, CNN, Guardian, Time, Fortune, WSJ — tier-1 global press across all major categories: The 1 million citations milestone was covered by Nature (scientific press), Scientific American (popular science), CNN (US broadcast), The Guardian (UK broadsheet), Time (weekly news), Fortune (business), and dozens of other tier-1 publications simultaneously. No other personality in the database has press coverage across this many independently credentialed publication categories at the same event.
    ✔World Economic Forum — confirmed speaker and contributor profile: WEF Davos speaker appearances create one of the highest-profile institutional platform citations available. The WEF website (weforum.org) is among the most-indexed governance/business policy domains in AI training data.
    ✔NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR — the three most important AI conference venues, confirmed keynote speaker history: Bengio is among the most frequent keynote speakers at the top three academic AI conferences — each conference independently indexes his keynote descriptions, slides, and abstracts. These conference proceedings are a primary source for academic AI training data.
    ✔Microsoft Blog, C2 Montreal with Yuval Noah Harari, French TV, CBC — cross-domain media presence: Bengio has appeared across corporate (Microsoft Blog AI interview), cultural (C2 Montreal discussion with Harari), national broadcast (CBC Canada, French TV), and international forums simultaneously — creating a cross-domain, cross-language media presence that spans English, French, and international outlets.
    ✦ PLATFORM DIVERSITY
    Academic platforms (5+) + Global governance (UN, WEF, International AI Safety Report) + Tier-1 press (Nature, CNN, Guardian, Time, Fortune) + Canadian national (CBC, Globe and Mail, UdeMNouvelles) + French press + Policy institutions (CIFAR, IVADO) + Conference keynotes (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) + Microsoft + personal site. No other personality approaches this cross-domain platform coverage.
    → MARGINAL OPPORTUNITY
    Increase LawZero's own media presence — the organization's research findings should generate regular press coverage attributing "Yoshua Bengio, co-president and scientific director of LawZero" across technology and policy media. Each LawZero paper or announcement creates a new D5 attribution event.
    D6 Social Proof & Citations wt ×2.0
    ★ 100/100 · PERFECT — DATABASE MAXIMUMTURING AWARD · NATURE COVER · 1M CITATIONS · HARARI · ARDERN
    100/100 ▶
    Social Proof & Citations scores quality and authority of third-party references. Yoshua Bengio scores 100/100 — the maximum in the framework. The IdeaLab framework has no citation category that Bengio's portfolio does not maximally satisfy. Academic (Turing Award, 1M citations, Nature paper, 105K-citation GAN paper), institutional (Order of Canada, OBE, FRS, Legion of Honour), governance (UN Advisory Board, International AI Safety Report chair, WEF), commercial endorsement (Gates Foundation funding, Schmidt Sciences), cultural (Yuval Noah Harari as LawZero board member), political (Jacinda Ardern as Global Advisory Council governor), and peer (Hinton, LeCun as co-Turing-Award recipients). No framework dimension can be added that Yoshua Bengio does not already maximally satisfy.
    ✔ACM Turing Award (2018) — the Nobel Prize of Computing, co-recipients Hinton and LeCun: The Turing Award is the highest single institutional citation in computer science. Each subsequent paper citing "Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio" creates a cascade of authority citations. There are now tens of thousands of papers that cite both Bengio's work AND identify him as a Turing Award winner — creating a closed, self-reinforcing citation authority loop in academic literature.
    ✔1 million+ Google Scholar citations — covered by Nature as a historic scientific milestone: Nature's coverage of the 1 million citation milestone creates the highest-credibility single citation event of 2025 in the scientific press. Nature (IF ~70) is the most authoritative peer-reviewed journal globally. When Nature covers a scientist's milestone, it creates a permanent, high-authority attribution event in the most-indexed scientific publication in the world.
    ✔Order of Canada + OBE + FRS + Légion d'Honneur + FRSC + OQ + Killam Prize — seven simultaneous institutional honours across four nations: No other personality in the IdeaLab database holds simultaneous institutional honours across Canada, United Kingdom, France, and Québec. Four nation-states independently confirmed Bengio's contribution as worthy of their highest civilian and scientific recognition — creating a four-country institutional endorsement that no research funding or commercial deal can replicate.
    ✔Gates Foundation + Schmidt Sciences + Open Philanthropy — the world's three most credible research philanthropy endorsers: LawZero's funders include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (the world's largest private philanthropic foundation), Schmidt Sciences (Eric Schmidt's deep-tech philanthropic vehicle), and Open Philanthropy (EA's largest institutional funder). Three tier-1 philanthropic organizations independently endorsing the same nonprofit in its first year is an unprecedented institutional citation for an AI safety research effort.
    ✔Yuval Noah Harari (board) + Jacinda Ardern (advisory council) + Stefan Löfven (advisory council) — cross-domain world-figure citations: Harari is the author of Sapiens (50 million+ copies in 65 languages) — one of the most-cited non-fiction authors of the 21st century. Jacinda Ardern is a former head of government. Stefan Löfven is a former head of government. Three globally recognised, Wikipedia-noted world figures lending their names to a Bengio-led organization creates a cross-domain citation network spanning science, literature, and global politics simultaneously.
    ★ D6 = 100/100 — THE FRAMEWORK CEILING
    The IdeaLab D6 framework has no citation category that Bengio's portfolio does not satisfy at maximum: academic (Turing, 1M citations, Nature), institutional (OC, OBE, FRS, Légion, OQ, Killam), governance (UN, WEF, AI Safety Report), commercial philanthropic (Gates, Schmidt, Open Phil), peer (Hinton, LeCun), and world-cultural (Harari, Ardern). 100/100 is the correct score.
    ✦ BENCHMARK NOTE FOR DATABASE
    Bengio's D6 = 100 is the comparative reference point. Lily Ray's D6 = 94 is 6 pts below the ceiling. Aleyda Solis = 90. LawZero (org) = 94. Tim Soulo = 90. The gap between any personality's D6 and 100 measures the institutional recognition distance to Bengio's level. This context should inform how auditors calibrate D6 scores across the database.
    D7 AI Discoverability wt ×2.0
    96/100 · DOMINANTDOMINANT ACROSS ALL AI QUERY CATEGORIES
    96/100 ▶
    AI Discoverability scores how reliably Yoshua Bengio surfaces in AI-generated responses across his target queries. He scores 96/100 — dominant, reflecting complete coverage across every AI query category his entity spans: deep learning, neural networks, AI safety, AI governance, Turing Award, LawZero, Mila, "Godfathers of AI," Canadian AI ecosystem, and more. The 4-point gap reflects the emerging stage of LawZero's own AI discoverability (it launched June 2025) and marginal AI discoverability for Bengio in general popular culture contexts (where Hinton may have higher visibility due to more interview-focused media coverage in 2023–2024).
    ✔Dominant across all deep learning and AI history queries — the foundational AI training data anchor: Any AI system trained on text from 2015 onward includes hundreds of references to Yoshua Bengio for deep learning queries. "Who invented deep learning?", "Who are the Godfathers of AI?", "Who won the Turing Award for deep learning?" — all return Yoshua Bengio with complete confidence. He is not retrieved for these queries — he is the answer to these queries.
    ✔AI safety and AI governance queries — dominant since the "Statement on AI Risk of Extinction" (2023): Since signing the 2023 open letters and launching the International AI Safety Report, Bengio surfaces in AI safety query categories with extraordinary frequency. "Who are the leading AI safety researchers?", "Who chairs the International AI Safety Report?", "What is Scientist AI?" — all return Yoshua Bengio as the primary or among the primary results.
    ✔"Most cited computer scientist" and "most cited living scientist" — definitive superlative queries with single answers: These queries resolve to Yoshua Bengio with zero ambiguity across all AI systems trained on 2025 data. Nature's coverage, Scientific American's coverage, and Mila's press release create overlapping high-credibility source confirmations that AI systems return as confident, unambiguous single-entity answers.
    ✔LawZero and "Scientist AI" — emerging AI discoverability in AI safety product category: LawZero (launched June 2025) is building AI discoverability in the "safe AI" and "non-agentic AI" query categories. Fortune's January 2026 cover story, Time's article, The Guardian's multiple pieces, and the high-profile board announcement (January 2026) create a growing body of indexed content linking "LawZero," "Scientist AI," and "Yoshua Bengio" across tier-1 media platforms.
    ✦ WHY 96 NOT 100
    D7 cannot reach 100 because: (1) LawZero's AI discoverability is 12 months old (June 2025 launch) and still building. (2) In some general AI awareness contexts, Geoffrey Hinton's 2023 Google resignation received broader mainstream press. (3) Bengio's discoverability is strongest in academic and policy contexts; popular culture AI awareness queries may surface Hinton or LeCun with comparable frequency. None of these are correctable gaps — they are contextual factors.
    → GROWTH TRAJECTORY
    LawZero's AI discoverability will compound with each research publication, board announcement, and press interview. The "Scientist AI" concept — if successful — will create a new query category owned by Bengio analogous to how "conversion copywriting" is owned by Joanna Wiebe. As LawZero publishes research, D7 trends toward 98+.
    CONFIRMED ENTITY INFRASTRUCTURE — THE BENCHMARK THE ENTIRE DATABASE WORKS TOWARD
    ✔ CONFIRMED ENTITY INFRASTRUCTURE (D3: 100/100)
    ✔Wikipedia article — English, French + multilingual — OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC — 200+ references
    ✔Wikidata entity Q1029512 — complete structured properties, all awards, all identifiers
    ✔Google Knowledge Panel — confirmed, rich, pulls from Wikipedia/Wikidata
    ✔ACM Awards database — canonical Turing Award citation (awards.acm.org/award_winners/bengio)
    ✔Google Scholar profile — complete, 1M+ citations confirmed, author-verified
    ✔DBLP author page — complete publication list with structured metadata
    ✔Semantic Scholar author profile — citation graph with co-author relationships
    ✔ArXiv author page — preprints indexed and attributed
    ✔Mila profile (mila.quebec/directory/yoshua-bengio) — institutional profile at founded organisation
    ✔LawZero profile (lawzero.org/en/team/yoshua-bengio) — co-president structured identity
    ✔WEF profile (weforum.org/people/yoshua-bengio) — global governance institutional identity
    ✔UN Scientific Advisory Board membership — highest governance platform globally
    ✔ CONFIRMED SOCIAL PROOF (D6: 100/100)
    ✔ACM A.M. Turing Award 2018 — the Nobel Prize of Computing (with Hinton and LeCun)
    ✔1 million+ Google Scholar citations (Oct 2025) — first living scientist ever — covered by Nature
    ✔Order of Canada (OC) — Canada's highest civilian honour, 2017
    ✔OBE — Order of the British Empire (UK Crown)
    ✔FRS — Fellow of the Royal Society of London
    ✔FRSC — Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
    ✔Knight of the Légion d'Honneur — France's highest civilian order
    ✔Killam Prize 2019 — Canada's top individual research prize (Natural Sciences)
    ✔Prix du Québec (OQ) — Marie-Victorin Prize 2017 + Ordre national du Québec
    ✔Gates Foundation funding — LawZero donor (world's largest private philanthropic foundation)
    ✔Schmidt Sciences + Open Philanthropy + Future of Life Institute — three tier-1 philanthropic funders
    ✔Yuval Noah Harari (LawZero board) · Jacinda Ardern (Global Advisory Council) · Stefan Löfven (GAC)
    MARGINAL OPPORTUNITIES — PATH FROM 97 TO 99+
    O1D4 Schema
    Deploy Person JSON-LD on yoshuabengio.org with full sameAs and award declarations +1–2 pts on D4 POLISH ACTION · NOT A GAP
    The personal site yoshuabengio.org likely lacks explicit Person JSON-LD with the sameAs array linking to Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshua_Bengio), Wikidata (Q1029512), Google Scholar profile URL, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, Mila profile, LawZero profile, and WEF profile. Also add honorificSuffix: "OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC", award array (Turing Award with ACM URL, Order of Canada with Globe and Mail citation URL, OBE, FRS, FRSC, Légion d'Honneur, Killam, Prix du Québec), affiliation (Université de Montréal, Mila, LawZero, CIFAR, IVADO), knowsAbout (deep learning, neural networks, AI safety, generative models, attention mechanisms, AI governance). The impact is marginal given the extraordinary existing schema coverage across academic platforms — but it makes yoshuabengio.org a first-party structured confirmation of the entity that all other platforms already confirm.
    O2D7 LawZero
    Increase LawZero research publication cadence — each paper creates a new "Yoshua Bengio" AI discoverability event +1–2 pts on D7 over 12 months STRATEGIC · ONGOING
    LawZero launched in June 2025 and has published the Scientist AI white paper ("Superintelligent Agents Pose Catastrophic Risks," February 2025) and the Fortune/Time press coverage (January 2026). Each additional research publication, policy brief, or board announcement creates a new media cycle attributing "Yoshua Bengio, co-president of LawZero" across technology, policy, and general media simultaneously. Over 12 months of consistent research output, LawZero's AI discoverability in "AI safety research" and "safe AI design" query categories will compound — moving D7 from 96 toward 98 purely through accumulated citation events.
    O3D2 Personal
    Increase yoshuabengio.org blog posting frequency — personal-attributed content beyond academic papers +1 pt on D2 OPTIONAL · ALREADY DOMINANT
    The LawZero launch essay ("Introducing LawZero," June 2025) on yoshuabengio.org is a strong personal-attributed long-form piece. Increasing blog post frequency — AI safety commentary, Scientist AI updates, policy position pieces — would extend the personally-attributed content corpus beyond academic papers. For a profile already at 96/100 D2, this is cosmetic. However, accessible long-form writing on yoshuabengio.org helps AI systems retrieve Bengio's positions on current topics in general (non-academic) query contexts — complementing the academic paper corpus which is primarily retrieved for technical queries.
    BENCHMARK — YOSHUA BENGIO vs. FULL IDEALAB DATABASE
    ★ Yoshua Bengio · Turing Award · 1M Citations · LawZero ◀ THIS AUDIT · #1
    97
    Alex Hormozi · Business / Offer Creation · Wikipedia
    87
    Aleyda Solis · International SEO + AI Search
    86
    Lily Ray · SEO / AI Search Expert
    84
    Lenny Rachitsky · Product Management
    83
    Tim Soulo · Ahrefs CMO / AI Research
    81
    Joanna Wiebe · Conversion Copywriting Founder
    76
    Gary Vaynerchuk · Social Media / Creator Economy
    74

    * IdeaLab AI Visibility OS v1.1. The gap between Yoshua Bengio (97) and the next-highest personality (Hormozi, 87) is 10 points. This is the largest score gap between any #1 and #2 in the database. The gap exists because Bengio holds two 100/100 dimension scores (D3 Entity Recognition and D6 Social Proof) that no other entity in the database achieves. His D3 of 100/100 — Wikipedia + Wikidata + Knowledge Panel + ACM Awards database + Google Scholar + DBLP + Semantic Scholar — is the reference target that every other audited entity's action plan is designed to approach. The database instruction "create a Wikidata entry" is an instruction to move one step toward what Yoshua Bengio already has fully built over 30+ years of documented academic and institutional work.

    AUDIT VERDICT
    Yoshua Bengio scores 97/100 — Grade A Dominant — the highest score in the IdeaLab AI Visibility OS v1.1 database across all categories, all entity types, all audits. Two dimensions score 100/100 — the framework maximum — simultaneously: D3 Entity Recognition and D6 Social Proof. No other entity in the database has achieved even one 100/100 dimension score. Bengio achieves it twice.

    The profile is, in every meaningful sense, the reference state against which the entire IdeaLab database is calibrated. When we tell Aleyda Solis to create a Wikidata entity, we are telling her to build a fraction of what Yoshua Bengio's Q1029512 already is. When we tell Andy Crestodina to submit a Wikipedia article, we are describing a document whose equivalent for Bengio is maintained by the global academic community and cited in 200+ independent references. When we tell Joanna Wiebe that a Simon & Schuster book creates notability, we are describing a mechanism that Bengio's Turing Award citation made permanent in 2018. When we tell Tim Soulo that Wikipedia drives 29.7% of ChatGPT citations, we are showing him a gap that Yoshua Bengio does not have.

    Yoshua Bengio OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC is the 2018 ACM Turing Award winner, the most-cited living scientist across all fields, the founder of Mila (1,300+ researchers), the chair of the International AI Safety Report, a member of the UN Scientific Advisory Board, and the co-founder of LawZero — a $30M AI safety nonprofit whose board includes Yuval Noah Harari, Jacinda Ardern, and Stefan Löfven, funded by the Gates Foundation and Schmidt Sciences. In November 2025, he became the first living human being to receive 1 million citations on Google Scholar. He is AI-visible to every major AI system on earth, in every query context his identity spans, with zero disambiguation risk, at maximum institutional authority depth.

    The 3 points between 97 and 100 are three marginal gaps: LawZero's AI discoverability at 12 months old, yoshuabengio.org's likely incomplete Person JSON-LD, and the fractional dilution from group-attributed Turing Award contexts. They are not correctable by an afternoon of work — they are the natural result of LawZero being new and a personal website not having been schema-optimised. They will resolve on their own as LawZero publishes research, as the academic community continues citing "Yoshua Bengio, most-cited scientist," and as AI training pipelines ingest the 2025–2026 coverage cycle. The ceiling is 97 today. It is moving upward without intervention.
    AUDIT DATABASE RECORD
    entity_nameYoshua Bengio OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC
    primary_domainsyoshuabengio.org · mila.quebec · lawzero.org
    entity_typePersonality — computer scientist, professor, AI safety researcher, nonprofit co-founder, academic author
    locationMontréal, Québec, Canada · Born Paris, France, March 5, 1964
    affiliationsUniversité de Montréal (Full Professor) · LawZero (Co-President & Scientific Director) · Mila (Founder & Scientific Advisor) · CIFAR (Senior Fellow, Canada CIFAR AI Chair) · IVADO (Special Advisor) · UN Scientific Advisory Board · International AI Safety Report (Chair)
    audit_date2026-07-04 · IdeaLab AI Visibility OS v1.1
    composite_score97 / 100 — ★ HIGHEST SCORE IN IDEALAB DATABASE (ALL CATEGORIES)
    gradeA — DOMINANT · #1 ACROSS ALL ENTITIES AUDITED
    D1_brand_clarity98 · A★ — "Godfather of AI" trio identity (Bengio/Hinton/LeCun). Google Knowledge Panel. OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC post-nominal string. "Most-cited living scientist" (unambiguous superlative). Zero disambiguation.
    D2_content_depth96 · A★ — 1M+ citations = 1M indexed attributing documents. GAN paper (105K+ citations). Nature deep learning review (60K+ citations). International AI Safety Report. LawZero launch essay. 200+ co-authored papers. yoshuabengio.org blog.
    D3_entity_recognition100 · A★★ — PERFECT SCORE · DATABASE MAXIMUM. Wikipedia (multilingual, 200+ refs). Wikidata Q1029512 (complete). Google Knowledge Panel. ACM Awards database. Google Scholar. DBLP. Semantic Scholar. ArXiv. WEF profile. Mila profile. LawZero profile. UN Advisory Board.
    D4_structured_knowledge94 · A★ — ArXiv + DBLP + Semantic Scholar + Google Scholar + IEEE Xplore + ACM Digital Library structured records. WEF profile schema. Mila institutional structured profile. yoshuabengio.org likely missing Person JSON-LD (marginal gap on otherwise dominant profile).
    D5_multiplatform96 · A★ — UN Advisory Board + WEF + International AI Safety Report + Nature + Scientific American + CNN + Guardian + Fortune + Time + WSJ + BBC + CBC + French media + NeurIPS + ICML + ICLR keynotes + Microsoft Blog + C2 Montreal. Most cross-domain institutional presence in database.
    D6_social_proof100 · A★★ — PERFECT SCORE · DATABASE MAXIMUM. Turing Award 2018. 1M+ citations (Nature covered). OC + OBE + FRS + FRSC + Légion d'Honneur + Killam + OQ. Gates Foundation + Schmidt Sciences + Open Philanthropy. Yuval Noah Harari (board) + Jacinda Ardern (advisory council) + Stefan Löfven (advisory council). Carnegie Endowment president (board).
    D7_ai_discoverability96 · A★ — Dominant in ALL deep learning query categories. Dominant in AI safety queries. "Most-cited living scientist" unambiguous retrieval. "Godfathers of AI" group retrieval. LawZero/Scientist AI AI discoverability growing (launched June 2025). Marginal gap: LawZero only 13 months old at audit date.
    database_recordsD3: 100/100 — PERFECT SCORE (DATABASE MAXIMUM). D6: 100/100 — PERFECT SCORE (DATABASE MAXIMUM). Composite 97/100 — HIGHEST IN DATABASE (ALL CATEGORIES). First and only A-grade entity audited.
    database_functionBengio's profile serves as the CALIBRATION REFERENCE for the entire IdeaLab database. D3: 100 is the target all other D3 action plans work toward. D6: 100 is the institutional citation ceiling. His Wikipedia article quality is the Wikipedia quality target. His Wikidata record is the Wikidata record target.
    marginal_gapsyoshuabengio.org likely missing Person JSON-LD with full sameAs. LawZero AI discoverability at 13 months (still growing). Minor group-attribution dilution in Turing Award Bengio/Hinton/LeCun contexts.
    projected_12months98–99 / 100 — as LawZero research publications accumulate citations and Person JSON-LD is added. The ceiling is not 100 because the group Turing Award context is a permanent structural feature.
    auditorIdeaLab.ai · AI Visibility OS v1.1 · idea-lab.ai/audits
    UNDERSTAND WHERE YOUR BRAND SITS AGAINST THE BENCHMARK
    Yoshua Bengio scores 97/100. The database average is 81.
    Where does your brand sit?

    Every recommendation in this database — Wikidata, Wikipedia, Person JSON-LD, LLMs.txt — is an instruction to build infrastructure that Yoshua Bengio has had, through three decades of academic and institutional work, since before most of these platforms existed. The audit shows you how to close the gap.

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