What Yoshua Bengio thinks about agency

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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

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1. 11 Sept 2026

   Our readingStaying in operation and gaining control over one's environment are useful instrumental steps toward achieving almost any goal.

   Their wordsstaying in operation, learning about the world and gaining control over it are stepping stones toward almost any other goal.

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