Research
We are building a multi-step pathway to safe advanced AI.
At the heart of our breakthrough research is the Scientist AI, a novel approach conceived by Yoshua Bengio that represents a distinctive safety-centered path towards ASI.
The Scientist AI is inspired by an ideal scientist: a mind that has internalized the laws of nature and uses them to make predictions, but without predilection about how things unfold. It is a highly intelligent machine that uses probabilistic reasoning to understand the world, but with no hidden goals or preferences. Its predictions are transparent, auditable and verifiable.
As we build towards safe advanced AI, we expect the Scientist AI to accelerate scientific breakthroughs, provide guardrails and oversight for agentic AI systems while advancing our understanding of the risks posed by AI and how to avoid them.
Featured Publication
The leading AI companies are increasingly focused on building generalist AI agents — systems that can autonomously plan, act, and pursue goals across almost all tasks that humans can perform. Despite how useful these systems might be, unchecked AI agency poses significant risks to public safety and security, ranging from misuse by malicious actors to a potentially irreversible loss of human control. We discuss how these risks arise from current AI training methods.