By AXIOS
Published on June 03, 2025
Machine learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio is launching a new nonprofit lab backed by roughly $30 million in funding to make AI systems act less like humans.
Why it matters: The move bucks a trend toward AI that acts independently, which Bengio and others fear might create systems that place their own interests over humanity’s.
- “We’ve been getting inspiration from humans as the template for building intelligent machines, but that’s crazy, right?” Bengio said in an interview.
- “If we continue on this path, that means we’re going to be creating entities — like us — that don’t want to die, and that may be smarter than us and that we’re not sure if they’re going to behave according to our norms and our instructions,” he said.