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Jonathan Barry

jonathan.barry@mila.quebec
Director of Policy, Office of Professor Bengio

Biography

Jonathan Barry is the Director of Policy to Professor Yoshua Bengio, where he focuses on the intersection of policy and AI governance and safety. He has contributed his expertise to building multilateral cooperation on AI, spanning across initiatives at organizations like the UN, World Economic Forum, and International AI Safety Report.

Prior to joining Mila, Jonathan was a seasoned policy strategist and served as a trusted advisor to two Canadian Prime Ministers and two Ministers of National Defence. He holds a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University and a Bachelor in International Relations from the University of British Columbia.

Publications

International AI Safety Report: First Key Update, Capabilities and Risk Implications
Prof. Yoshua Bengio
Stephen Clare
Carina Prunkl
Maksym Andriushchenko
BEN BUCKNALL
Philip Fox
Tiancheng Hu
Cameron Jones
Sam Manning
Nestor Maslej
Vasilios Mavroudis
Conor McGlynn
Malcolm Murray
Shalaleh Rismani
Charlotte Stix
Lucia Velasco
Nicole Wheeler
Daniel Privitera
Sören Mindermann
Daron Acemoglu … (see 36 more)
Thomas G. Dietterich
Fredrik Heintz
Geoffrey Hinton
Nick Jennings
Susan Leavy
Teresa Ludermir
Vidushi Marda
Helen Margetts
John McDermid
Jane Munga
Arvind Narayanan
Alondra Nelson
Clara Neppel
Sarvapali D. (Gopal) Ramchurn
Stuart Russell
Marietje Schaake
Bernhard Schölkopf
Alvaro Soto
Lee Tiedrich
Gael Varoquaux
Andrew Yao
Ya-Qin Zhang
Lambrini Das
Claire Dennis
Arianna Dini
Freya Hempleman
Samuel Kenny
Patrick King
Hannah Merchant
Jamie-Day Rawal
Rose Woolhouse
Jonathan Barry
Marc-Antoine Guérard
Claire Latendresse
Cassidy MacNeil
Benjamin Prud'homme
The field of AI is moving too quickly for a single yearly publication to keep pace. Significant changes can occur on a timescale of months, … (see more)sometimes weeks. This is why we are releasing Key Updates: shorter, focused reports that highlight the most important developments between full editions of the International AI Safety Report. With these updates, we aim to provide policymakers, researchers, and the public with up-to-date information to support wise decisions about AI governance. This first Key Update focuses on areas where especially significant changes have occurred since January 2025: advances in general-purpose AI systems' capabilities, and the implications for several critical risks. New training techniques have enabled AI systems to reason step-by-step and operate autonomously for longer periods, allowing them to tackle more kinds of work. However, these same advances create new challenges across biological risks, cyber security, and oversight of AI systems themselves. The International AI Safety Report is intended to help readers assess, anticipate, and manage risks from general-purpose AI systems. These Key Updates ensure that critical developments receive timely attention as the field rapidly evolves.
2025-10-21
SuperIntelligence - Robotics - Safety & Alignment (published)
doi.org
International AI Safety Report
Yoshua Bengio
Bronwyn Fox
André Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho
Mona Nemer
Raquel Pezoa Rivera
Yi Zeng
Juha Heikkilä
Guillaume Avrin
Antonio Krüger
Balaraman Ravindran
Hammam Riza
Ciarán Seoighe
Ziv Katzir
Andrea Monti
Hiroaki Kitano
Nusu Mwamanzi
Fahad Albalawi
José Ramón López Portillo
Haroon Sheikh
Gill Jolly … (see 86 more)
Olubunmi Ajala
Jerry Sheehan
Dominic Vincent Ligot
Kyoung Mu Lee
Crystal Rugege
Denise Wong
Nuria Oliver
Christian Busch
Ahmet Halit Hatip
Oleksii Molchanovskyi
Marwan Alserkal
Chris Johnson
Amandeep Singh Gill
Saif M. Khan
Sören Mindermann
Daniel Privitera
Tamay Besiroglu
Rishi Bommasani
Stephen Casper
Yejin Choi
Philip Fox
Ben Garfinkel
Danielle Goldfarb
Hoda Heidari
Anson Ho
Sayash Kapoor
Leila Khalatbari
Shayne Longpre
Sam Manning
Vasilios Mavroudis
Mantas Mazeika
Julian Michael
Jessica Newman
Kwan Yee Ng
Chinasa T. Okolo
Deborah Raji
Girish Sastry
Elizabeth Seger
Theodora Skeadas
Tobin South
Daron Acemoglu
Olubayo Adekanmbi
David Dalrymple
Thomas G. Dietterich
Edward W. Felten
Pascale Fung
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
Fredrik Heintz
Geoffrey Hinton
Nick Jennings
Andreas Krause
Susan Leavy
Percy Liang
Teresa Ludermir
Vidushi Marda
Emma Strubell
Florian Tramèr
Lucia Velasco
Nicole Wheeler
Helen Margetts
John McDermid
Jane Munga
Arvind Narayanan
Alondra Nelson
Clara Neppel
Alice Oh
Gopal Ramchurn
Stuart Russell
Marietje Schaake
Bernhard Schölkopf
Dawn Song
Alvaro Soto
Lee Tiedrich
Gael Varoquaux
Andrew Yao
Ya-Qin Zhang
Baran Acar
Ben Clifford
Lambrini Das
Claire Dennis
Freya Hempleman
Hannah Merchant
Rian Overy
Ben Snodin
Jonathan Barry
Benjamin Prud’homme
The first International AI Safety Report comprehensively synthesizes the current evidence on the capabilities, risks, and safety of advanced… (see more) AI systems. The report was mandated by the nations attending the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley, UK. Thirty nations, the UN, the OECD, and the EU each nominated a representative to the report's Expert Advisory Panel. A total of 100 AI experts contributed, representing diverse perspectives and disciplines. Led by the report's Chair, these independent experts collectively had full discretion over the report's content.
2024-12-31
arXiv (preprint)
doi.org
arxiv.org