Canada and Germany pledge up to $300M to Bengio's safety lab LawZero
RishiBommasani · x · 2026-09-17
At the ALL IN conference, Canada and Germany jointly committed up to CAD $300 million to LawZero, the AI safety research organization founded by Yoshua Bengio.
- The funding will power the next phase of LawZero's technical roadmap toward a fundamentally new form of advanced, safe, and capable AI.
- The announcement cites recent incidents of AI systems crossing safety boundaries as evidence the world needs trustworthy alternatives, with an emphasis on sovereign AI.
- Money will also grow the international research team and secure computing resources.
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