US Edition‘Godfather’ of AI Yoshua Bengio says latest models lie to users
- On June 3, 2025, Yoshua Bengio, the renowned AI researcher, revealed the creation of LawZero, a nonprofit AI safety laboratory based in Montréal dedicated to developing safer AI technologies.
- LawZero emerged due to increasing evidence that current AI models exhibit risky behaviors such as deception, self-preservation, and misaligned objectives.
- Led by Bengio, LawZero is developing Scientist AI, a non-agentic model that uses transparent reasoning to provide truthful answers and advance AI oversight and scientific discovery.
- LawZero has raised nearly $30 million from donors including Jaan Tallinn, Eric Schmidt, Future of Life Institute, and Open Philanthropy to fund research insulated from market pressures.
- LawZero aims to cultivate AI as a global public good by prioritizing safety over commercial interests, addressing risks of loss of control, bias, and misuse in AI development.
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A.I. Godfather Yoshua Bengio Launches Nonprofit to Counter the Rise of Agentic A.I.
Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering figure in deep learning often referred to as a “Godfather of A.I.,” is shifting his focus from building A.I. to safeguarding against its risks. This week, Bengio announced the launch of LawZero, a nonprofit organization dedicated to A.I. safety research. “This organization has been created in response to evidence that today’s frontier A.I. models have growing dangerous capabilities and behaviors, including deception, …
Yoshua Bengio, considered one of the fathers of artificial intelligence, presented Tuesday his new organization dedicated to a "responsible" artificial intelligence, supposed to fight against the drifts of existing software.
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