Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio is launching a nonprofit AI security lab known as LawZero to construct safer AI programs, he instructed 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, 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 of one of many “godfathers” to the trendy AI increase, has develop into one of the crucial vocal advocates for the AI security motion. He publicly supported SB-1047, California’s controversial AI security invoice that aimed to forestall AI programs from inflicting catastrophic eventualities.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Bengio mentioned he had little religion in OpenAI and Google to prioritize security as they race towards extra clever AI programs.
