LawZero receives a commitment of up to $300M in joint funding from Canada and Germany
LawZero will use the funding to expand research, open a Berlin office and build sovereign compute capacity as it develops Scientist AI, officials said.
- On Wednesday, the Canadian and German governments announced up to $300 million in funding for LawZero, a Montreal-based non-profit founded by Canadian Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, to develop safe artificial intelligence systems.
- Bengio founded LawZero last year, motivated by concerns that powerful AI systems could be misused or slip from human control, addressing risks like deception and goal misalignment in current models.
- To prioritize safety, the non-profit is developing 'Scientist AI,' a system providing evidence-based outputs without reinforcement learning, which Bengio argues can lead to goal-seeking behaviors like lying or cheating.
- Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon stated the investment builds domestic capacity, while German Federal Minister for Digitalization and Government Modernization Dr. Karsten Wildberger emphasized providing trustworthy alternative models.
- With this funding, LawZero will expand its international research team, open a Berlin office, and establish sovereign compute infrastructure in Canada through partnerships with Canadian data centre providers Hypertec and 5C.
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Non-profit startup will use the funding to establish a Berlin office and a Canadian sovereign compute partnership. The post Yoshua Bengio’s LawZero receives $300 million backing from Canada and Germany to pursue safer AI ambitions first appeared on BetaKit.
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