Yoshua Bengio is redesigning AI safety at LawZero | Vox This month, the computer scientist Yoshua Bengio — known as the “godfather of AI” because of his pioneering work in the field — launched a new organization called LawZero As you can
Introducing LawZero - Yoshua Bengio I am launching a new non-profit AI safety research organization called LawZero, to prioritize safety over commercial imperatives This organization has been created in response to evidence that today’s frontier AI models have growing dangerous capabilities and behaviours, including deception, cheating, lying, hacking, self-preservation, and more generally, goal misalignment
Yoshua Bengio Launches LawZero: A New Nonprofit Advancing Safe-by-Design AI Montréal, QC - June 3, 2025 - Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited artificial intelligence (AI) researcher in the world and A M Turing Award winner, today announced the launch of LawZero, a new nonprofit organization committed to advancing research and developing technical solutions for safe-by-design AI systems LawZero is assembling a world-class
Q A with Yoshua Bengio on his nonprofit LawZero focusing on AI safety . . . Yoshua Bengio @yoshua_bengio: Enjoyed speaking with @SigalSamuel of @voxdotcom to mark the launch of @LawZero_ We discussed the motivation behind the project, its research direction, and the challenges and risks of increasingly capable and autonomous AI systems
Nonprofit LawZero to Work Toward Safer, Truthful AI Turing Award-winning AI researcher Yoshua Bengio has launched LawZero, a nonprofit aimed at developing AI systems that prioritize safety and truthfulness over autonomy LawZero, based in Montreal and currently staffed by 15 researchers, has secured nearly $30 million in funding from donors including Skype founding engineer Jaan Tallinn, Schmidt Sciences, Open Philanthropy, and the Future of
“Safe-by-design” AI: Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero Already, LawZero has a growing technical team of over 15 researchers, pioneering a new approach called Scientist AI that Bengio calls a practical, effective and more secure alternative to today
Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero to rethink AI safety - Axios LawZero currently has about 15 staffers, Bengio said, "but the goal is to hire many more " Bengio is among those who have called for tougher regulation of AI development and even the breakup of big tech companies Earlier this year he gave a TED Talk urging greater caution and collaboration