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Protecting human joy and endeavour

LawZero is a nonprofit startup developing technical solutions for highly-capable, safe-by-design AI systems.

The challenge: Current frontier AI systems are becoming more capable and autonomous, yet they remain opaque and misaligned with human goals. These systems are already showing many early signs of deception behaviors and self preservation, creating growing uncertainty about how these systems will behave with even greater abilities to strategize autonomously.

Our solution: We are building a multi-step pathway to safe advanced AI, so that future AI systems are developed and deployed responsibly, equitably, and as a global public good.

Simply put, we are creating a fundamentally new form of advanced AI, designed to be trustworthy and safe.





Our scientific direction is based on groundbreaking research led by Professor Yoshua Bengio, a globally recognized expert in AI and the world’s most cited living scientist across all fields.

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Latest News

LawZero advances secure-by-design AI with support from NVIDIA

LawZero advances safe-by-design AI with support from NVIDIA

15 07 2026

- An AI that Predicts but has no Hidden Agenda: LawZero Lays out a Formal Safety Case for its “Scientist AI”. LawZero’s research team, led by Yoshua Bengio, makes the mathematical case for a “disinterested” AI that predicts the truth without pursuing goals of its own.

02 07 2026

- In the Media How to Keep AI From Going Off the Rails
- 15 06 2026 Nicholas Thompson / Atlantic Re:think

AI Scientist Bengio on Engineering Safer Agents

- 15 06 2026 Bloomberg The catastrophic risks of AI — and a safer path
- 20 05 2025

TED2025: Humanity Reimagined

Donors

Thanks to the support of generous donors, we launched a major nonprofit AI safety startup, insulated from market pressures that often prioritize speed of deployment over safety and trustworthiness.

A donor advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Made possible by the generosity of Jaan Tallinn and Founders Pledge Inc. (US)

Made possible by the generosity of Jaan Tallinn and Survival and Flourishing DAF, a donor advised fund of SVCF

How it Started

LawZero was incubated at Mila - Quebec AI Institute, a non-profit research institute founded by Professor Bengio.

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