{"id":172400,"date":"2025-06-03T17:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/yoshua-bengio-launches-lawzero-a-nonprofit-ai-safety-lab-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T17:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:33:49","slug":"yoshua-bengio-launches-lawzero-a-nonprofit-ai-safety-lab-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/yoshua-bengio-launches-lawzero-a-nonprofit-ai-safety-lab-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit AI safety lab | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/2b3ce320-2451-45c4-a15c-757461624585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">launching a nonprofit AI safety lab called LawZero<\/a> to build safer AI systems, he told the Financial Times on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LawZero raised $30 million in philanthropic contributions from Skype founding engineer Jaan Tallinn, former Google chief Eric Schmidt, Open Philanthropy, and the Future of Life Institute, among others. The name LawZero is a nod to a science fiction concept: the <a href=\"https:\/\/asimov.fandom.com\/wiki\/Zeroth_Law_of_Robotics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Zeroth Law of Robotics<\/a>, which places the protection of humanity above all else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bengio, considered one of the \u201cgodfathers\u201d to the modern AI boom, has become one of the most vocal advocates for the AI safety movement. He publicly supported <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/08\/30\/california-ai-bill-sb-1047-aims-to-prevent-ai-disasters-but-silicon-valley-warns-it-will-cause-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 1047<\/a>, California\u2019s controversial AI safety bill that aimed to prevent AI systems from causing catastrophic scenarios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with the Financial Times, Bengio said he had little faith in OpenAI and Google to prioritize safety as they race toward more intelligent AI systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/03\/yoshua-bengio-launches-lawzero-a-nonprofit-ai-safety-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio is launching a nonprofit AI safety lab called LawZero to build safer AI systems, he told the Financial Times on Monday. LawZero raised $30 million in philanthropic contributions from Skype founding engineer Jaan Tallinn, former Google chief Eric Schmidt, Open Philanthropy, and the Future of Life Institute, among others. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}