What AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio is doing next to make AI safer

Graham Hughes/Bloomberg via Getty Images As AI companies double down on AI agents as the future of work, one founding thinker of the technology is moving in reverse, advocating for simpler systems. On Tuesday, award-winning deep learning scientist Yoshua Bengio launched LawZero, an AI nonprofit "committed to advancing research and developing technical solutions for safe-by-design AI systems," according to a press release. One of the nonprofit's first objectives will be to create Scientist AI, a "non-agentic AI system" intended to function as a guardrail to keep other AI systems in check. Other AI labs have explored similar concepts to monitor autonomous agents and reduce hallucinations. Also: Tech prophet Mary Meeker just dropped a massive report on AI trends - here's your TL;DR "This system is designed to explain the world from observations, as opposed to taking actions in it to imitate or please humans," a paper on Scientist AIs said. Generating theories about world data, the sys ... Read full article.