Bengio Launches LawZero: A Non-Profit Focused on Safe AI

Yoshua Bengio, a Turing Award winner and the world's most-cited AI researcher, launched LawZero, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing safe-by-design AI systems. Addressing concerns about the dangerous capabilities of current frontier AI models, LawZero is assembling a team to pioneer 'Scientist AI,' a non-agentic approach focusing on understanding the world rather than acting within it. This approach aims to mitigate risks, accelerate scientific discovery, and provide oversight for more agentic AI systems. The initiative has received funding from organizations like the Future of Life Institute.