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Yoshua Bengio

Founder and Co-President, LawZero

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Yoshua Bengio founded LawZero, the Montréal non-profit launched on June 3, 2025 to build AI systems that are safe by design. Its main research line, Scientist AI, is a non-agentic model meant to oversee agentic systems. Bengio, an A.M. Turing Award winner, also founded Mila - Quebec AI Institute, where LawZero was incubated.

Yoshua hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Yoshua co-founded LawZero.

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Yoshua Bengio's non-profit to get up to $300-million from Canada, Germany to expand safe AI developmentThe Globe and Mail
2026
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Yoshua Bengio's LawZero receives $300 million backing from Canada and Germany to pursue safer AI ambitionsBetaKit
2026
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Can AI safeguard us against AI? One of its Canadian pioneers thinks soCBC Radio, As It Happens
2025
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Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit AI safety labTechCrunch
2025

Quick answers

Did Yoshua Bengio found LawZero?

Yes. LawZero's launch release of June 3, 2025 says Bengio announced the new non-profit that day. LawZero's team page, checked on September 24, 2026, lists Bengio as Co-President and Scientific Director.

How was LawZero funded at launch?

TechCrunch reported on June 3, 2025 that LawZero raised about US$30 million in philanthropic contributions from Jaan Tallinn, Eric Schmidt, Open Philanthropy and the Future of Life Institute, among others.

What government funding has LawZero received?

The Globe and Mail reported on September 16, 2026 that Canada and Germany will each provide up to C$150 million in grants, up to C$300 million in total, and that LawZero employs close to 50 people. BetaKit reported the same day that the money will fund a Berlin office and a Canadian sovereign compute partnership.

How is LawZero connected to Mila?

LawZero's launch release of June 3, 2025 says the organization was incubated at Mila - Quebec AI Institute, a non-profit Bengio founded, and that Mila now serves as its operating partner.

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