AI Pioneer Launches Research Group to Help Build Safer Agents

Yoshua Bengio, an artificial intelligence pioneer, is creating a new nonprofit research organization to promote an alternative approach to developing cutting-edge AI systems, with the aim of mitigating the technology’s potential risks.

The nonprofit, called LawZero, is set to launch Tuesday with $30 million in backing from one of former Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt’s philanthropic organizations and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, among others. Bengio will lead a team of more than 15 researchers who are initially working to build a new technical solution called Scientist AI that’s meant to act as a guardrail for AI agents.

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