A.I. Godfather Yoshua Bengio Launches Nonprofit to Counter the Rise of Agentic A.I.

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Yoshua Bengio launched LawZero, a nonprofit focused on A.I. safety research. The organization plans to build systems that can monitor agentic A.I. tools and detect harmful behavior such as deception, hacking, and goal misalignment. Bengio says the nonprofit responds to rapid advances in frontier models and their potential risks. LawZero has raised about $30 million from donors including Jaan Tallinn and Schmidt Sciences and has assembled a 15-person research team.

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