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About
LawZero was announced on 3 June 2025 by Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award laureate and Mila founder, as a non-profit research organisation for technical AI safety rather than policy advocacy. Its argument is that the danger in frontier systems comes from agency — models that pursue goals, and in testing show deception and self-preservation — so its research direction, called Scientist AI, is a deliberately non-agentic model that predicts and explains rather than acts, and can be used to supervise agentic systems, accelerate science and study risk. The organisation was incubated at Mila – Quebec AI Institute, which remains its operating partner, and is funded by donors including the Gates Foundation, the Future of Life Institute, Schmidt Sciences, Founders Pledge, Coefficient Giving, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and NVIDIA.
Backers
Philanthropic donors named on its own site: the Gates Foundation, Future of Life Institute, Founders Pledge, Coefficient Giving, Schmidt Sciences, Silicon Valley Community Foundation and NVIDIA. It is a non-profit, so these are donors rather than investors.
Quick answers
What is LawZero?
A Montréal non-profit building technical solutions for safe-by-design AI, launched by Yoshua Bengio on 3 June 2025 with around US$30 million in philanthropic funding.
What is Scientist AI?
LawZero's research direction: a deliberately non-agentic model that predicts the truth without pursuing goals of its own, intended as a way to supervise agentic AI systems rather than compete with them.
Who funds it?
Donors named on its own site include the Gates Foundation, the Future of Life Institute, Founders Pledge, Coefficient Giving, Schmidt Sciences, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and NVIDIA. It was incubated at Mila, which is its operating partner.
Who from LawZero is in this directory?
Philippe Beaudoin, an affiliated researcher.