Open this photo in gallery: Yoshua Bengio discusses artificial intelligence, democracy and the future of civilization at the C2MTL conference, in Montreal, on May 24.Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press Yoshua Bengio is a Turing Award-winning full professor at the Université de Montréal, the founder and scientific director of the Quebec-based AI institute Mila, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. From my early days as a graduate student in Montreal, I was drawn to an exciting scientific quest: understanding how human intelligence works. My goal was to contribute to finding the mathematical formulas, much like the laws of physics, that would resolve…