LawZero Appoints Philippe Beaudoin as Senior Director, Research

LawZero today announced the appointment of Philippe Beaudoin as Senior Director, Research. With a history of impactful work in the field of artificial intelligence, Beaudoin’s addition to the research team will help advance LawZero’s mission to develop safe-by-design AI systems. 

A seasoned researcher, developer, and entrepreneur, Beaudoin worked as a senior engineer at Google, contributing to the recommendation systems for the Chrome browser. In 2016, he co-founded the pioneering Quebec-based artificial intelligence company Element AI. Before joining LawZero, Beaudoin was the Founder and CEO of Waverly, a startup to explore how language and dialogue can create more enriching social networks. 

His work is driven by a mission to align technological systems with human flourishing, a conviction that led him to LawZero.

“Philippe’s extensive experience in AI and his commitment to its responsible development are perfectly aligned with LawZero's mission, and we look forward to working with him on developing safe AI systems,” said Yoshua Bengio, Co-President and Scientific Director of LawZero. “We are delighted to welcome Philippe to the research team at LawZero.”

About LawZero

LawZero is a nonprofit organization committed to advancing research and creating technical solutions that enable safe-by-design AI systems. Its scientific direction is based on new research and methods led by Professor Yoshua Bengio, the most cited AI researcher in the world. Based in Montréal, LawZero's research aims to build non-agentic AI that could be used to accelerate scientific discovery, to provide oversight for agentic AI systems, and to advance the understanding of AI risks and how to avoid them. LawZero believes that AI should be cultivated as a global public good—developed and used safely towards human flourishing. LawZero was incubated at Mila - Quebec AI Institute, a non-profit founded by Professor Bengio. Mila now serves as LawZero's operating partner.