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Yoshua Bengio, a leading figure in artificial intelligence and often referred to as one of the “Godfathers of AI,” has achieved a remarkable milestone by becoming the first individual to exceed one million citations on Google Scholar. Bengio’s influential research in machine learning, specifically his contributions to neural networks, has been instrumental in shaping the field. His accomplishments were recognized with the 2019 A.M. Turing Award, jointly awarded to Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun. Among his most highly cited works are studies on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and the ‘attention’ mechanism, a critical component in the architecture of sophisticated chatbots like ChatGPT. The achievement underscores the significant impact of Bengio’s work on the advancement of modern AI.