person · AI Safety Research

Yoshua Bengio

HQ / base: Montreal

Turing laureate; converted to x-risk concern 2023; chairs the International AI Safety Report; founded LawZero (Jun 2025, ~$30M from SFF-adjacent, Schmidt Sciences, Open Phil-linked donors incl. Skype-founder money) to build non-agentic 'Scientist AI' guardrails. p(doom) statements ~10–20%. The safety movement's chief scientific legitimator.

Connections

LawZerofounded (Jun 2025)
International AI Safety Reportchairs
Future of Life Institute (FLI)signed statement (2025)
Center for AI Safety (CAIS)signed extinction statement (2023)
China AI safety ecosystem (Concordia, CnAISDA)IDAIS dialogues
Geoffrey Hintonco-signatories; converted godfathers

Sources

READField Guide About

Geography

Grant Databases & Source Records

Primary grants database

Coefficient Giving grants database ↗

The essential searchable archive for grants made by Coefficient Giving, formerly Open Philanthropy. Use its filters to inspect grantees, focus areas, dates, and individual award pages.

Main site ↗Legacy Open Phil archive ↗

Coefficient Giving portfolios

Program-level grant trails ↗

Enter the major portfolios directly, then continue into their associated grants and strategy material.

Transformative AI ↗Farm animals ↗Biosecurity ↗Abundance & growth ↗

Global health grantmaking

GiveWell all grants ↗

Published grant pages and allocations across GiveWell’s global health and wellbeing portfolio, including top-charity and higher-uncertainty opportunities.

All Grants Fund ↗Top Charities Fund ↗

EA regranting

EA Funds grants ↗

A navigable public list of grants recommended through EA Funds, with fund, grantee, date, amount, and payout-status records.

Long-Term Future ↗Animal Welfare ↗Global Health ↗

Cross-funder index

EA Grants Database ↗

A consolidated research dataset spanning thousands of grants across major EA-aligned funders. Useful for comparing recipients and totals across separate grant programs.

Explore database ↗Method and release notes ↗

Major donor records

Good Ventures grants database ↗

The donor-side portfolio behind much of Coefficient Giving’s directed grantmaking, with searchable recipient and award records.

Portfolio overview ↗Nonprofit Explorer ↗

Independent regranting

Survival and Flourishing Fund ↗

Public recommendation rounds and award tables for SFF’s grantmaking across existential-risk, forecasting, policy, and rationalist-adjacent organizations.

Recommendation tables ↗About SFF ↗

Other large flows

FLI grant programs ↗

Grant programs and recipient announcements from the Future of Life Institute, complemented by public nonprofit and election-spending records.

FLI grants ↗FEC expenditures ↗OpenSecrets ↗

Selected Trails

Coefficient Giving

Global health & movement

Independent & institutional

Note. Amounts record snapshots and retain approximation markers. Verify individual grant dates, amendments, recipient names, and current totals on the linked databases