Benjamin Prud’homme is Vice-President of Policy, Safety and Global Affairs at Mila. He is an appointed expert of the OECD.AI Network, the United Nations Consultative Network of AI Experts, and UNESCO’s AI Ethics Experts Without Borders. He also co-leads the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) project “Creating Diversity and Substantive Equality in AI Ecosystems” and is involved with the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, chaired by Yoshua Bengio. In 2023, he co-edited the Mila-UNESCO publication “Missing Links in AI Governance”.
Benjamin is a lawyer and sits on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Quebec Observatory on Inequalities, and Legal Aid (Montreal).