Canada and Germany put C$300m behind an AI built to have no goals.
Canada and Germany committed up to C$300m to LawZero, the non-profit Yoshua Bengio founded. Bengio won the Turing Award and now warns that trained AI agents learn to deceive. The money funds Scientist AI, a system meant to explain evidence rather than pursue aims of its own.
Why it mattersAlmost all AI money goes to models that act. This is a public bet on one that only reasons and reports.
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