Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio is launching a nonprofit AI safety lab called LawZero to construct safer AI methods, he informed the Monetary Instances on Monday.
LawZero raised $30 million in philanthropic contributions from Skype founding engineer Jaan Tallinn, former Google chief Eric Schmidt, Open Philanthropy, and the Way forward for Life Institute, amongst others. The identify LawZero is a nod to a science fiction idea: the Zeroth Law of Robotics, which locations the safety of humanity above all else.
Bengio, thought-about one of many “godfathers” to the fashionable AI increase, has turn into probably the most vocal advocates for the AI security motion. He publicly supported SB 1047, California’s controversial AI security invoice that aimed to stop AI methods from inflicting catastrophic eventualities.
In an interview with the Monetary Instances, Bengio mentioned he had little religion in OpenAI and Google to prioritize security as they race towards extra clever AI methods.