The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday, June 3, edition that Canadian artificial intelligence researcher Yoshua Bengio is launching a non-profit organization with nearly $30-million (U.S.) in funding to develop safe AI systems that cannot deceive or harm humans. The Globe's Joe Castaldo writes that Mr. Bengio aims to ensure humanity remains in control of AI technology. His new venture will focus on a top-down, mission-oriented approach to solve specific problems in AI safety. The non-profit organization is named LawZero, referencing science fiction author Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, which state that intelligent machines must not harm human beings. LawZero, based in Montreal, will develop a concept called Scientist AI, which Prof. Bengio and his colleagues outlined in a paper earlier this year. In short, it is an AI system that will not have the negative traits found in today's large language models and chatbots, such as sycophancy, overconfidence and deception. Instead, the system would answer questions, prioritize honesty and help unlock new insights to aid in scientific discovery. The system can help create a tool to prevent AI agents from going rogue while completing tasks independently.