Bengio receives up to CAD 300 million from Canada and Germany for "safe by design" SI
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Governments have begun directly funding an alternative branch of SI where safety is built into the architecture — the world gets another path of development besides the race of autonomous agents.
Yoshua Bengio's nonprofit lab LawZero has received a joint commitment from the two governments of up to CAD 300 million. The money will go toward developing the Scientist AI approach, systems that explain the world rather than act autonomously, expanding the team, its own computing capacity in Canada with Hypertec and 5C, and an office in Berlin. LawZero's board includes Jacinda Ardern, Stefan Löfven and Yuval Noah Harari.
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