Yoshua Bengio announces the founding of the nonprofit LawZero
Announced the founding of the nonprofit LawZero — championing an approach to AI that is both powerful and fundamentally safe, and defining its core concept, Scientist AI, as a non-agentic system trained to understand the world rather than act in it
Why it matters
Shifted safety discourse from warnings to proposing an alternative architecture. Presented non-agentic AI as a workable technical route
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