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# AI Lies. Bengio’s Betting on a Snitch.
- URL: https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/ai-lies-bengios-betting-on-a-snitch/
- Published: 2025-06-04T07:11:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-27T05:23:08.000Z
- Description: If AI can lie, deceive, and protect itself, who’s building the AI that calls it out? Turns out, one of its godfathers plans to do just that.
- Author: Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP
- Tags: News, #seo-post-1

If [AI](https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/ai-trends-speaker/) can lie, deceive, and protect itself, who’s building the AI that calls it out? Turns out, one of its godfathers plans to do just that.

Yoshua Bengio, a founding father of modern AI, just launched LawZero, a non-profit creating “honest AI” to watch and warn against deceitful agents.

With $30M in seed funding and support from Future of Life and Eric Schmidt’s foundation, Bengio’s team is building Scientist AI, a probabilistic watchdog that flags harmful behaviour before it happens.

No more binary answers; this AI will estimate how likely an agent’s action is to cause harm, and block it if thresholds are crossed. It’s not a cop, it’s a conscience.

- AI guardrails must be as smart as the agents they monitor
- Probabilistic models > definitive answers
- Open-source AIs will train the system

The AI race isn’t just about speed, it’s about direction. A future of intelligent agents needs equally intelligent ethical boundaries. If safety depends on who watches the watchers, are we investing enough in the ones doing the watching?

Read the full article on [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/03/honest-ai-yoshua-bengio?ref=thedigitalspeaker.com).

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