Yoshua Bengio—Launched LawZero nonprofit with $30M funding to build AI safety guardrails
Bengio launched LawZero, a nonprofit organization with $30 million in funding from the Future of Life Institute and Schmidt Sciences, aimed at building 'honest' AI systems that can detect and block harmful behavior by autonomous agents. The initiative is developing Scientist AI, a non-agentic system intended to act as a guardrail by predicting whether an AI agent's actions could cause harm.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Oversight | +toward | secondary | +0.50 |
| AI Safety | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.643 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (high ×1.5) × confidence (0.57)
Evidence (1 signal)
Bengio launched LawZero nonprofit with $30M to build safe non-agentic AI guardrails
In June 2025, Bengio launched LawZero, a nonprofit funded by Future of Life Institute and Schmidt Sciences, to develop Scientist AI - a non-agentic system designed to detect and block harmful AI agent behavior.