Yoshua Bengio's non-profit wants to build an AI psychologist
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio just launched LawZero, a non-profit backed by roughly $30M to build guardrails against deceptive autonomous agents. Its upcoming "Scientist AI" acts like an impartial psychologist, outputting probability scores instead of confident answers and blocking actions likely to cause harm. Why it matters: As frontier models gain agency and self-preservation tendencies, we need watchdog systems at least as smart as the models they police.