Rogue AI is already here – Fortune

David Krueger is an Assistant Professor in Robust, Reasoning, and Responsible AI at the University of Montreal and a Core Academic Member at Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. He is the holder of a CIFAR AI Chair and the IVADO Professorship in Responsible AI.
David trained in Deep Learning under Yoshua Bengio, Roland Memisevic, and Aaron Courville from 2013-2021. He was an intern on Google DeepMind’s AI Safety in 2018. In 2023, he was a research director on the founding team of the UK AI Security Institute, and initiated the CAIS Statement on AI Risk.
In 2025, David founded Evitable, a nonprofit. Evitable’s mission is to inform and organize the public to confront societal-scale risks of AI, and put an end to the reckless race to develop superintelligence. David is on leave from his faculty job for 2026 and not currently accepting new students.
