Solutions for safe AI
We’re launching the Global Risk and AI Safety Preparedness (GRASP) project, a mapping of AI Safety technologies and tools, led by the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, which will be published on OECD.ai as part of project SAFE at Global Partnership on AI (GPAI). This mapping will assist policymakers, entrepreneurs, cutting-edge laboratories, and investors in navigating AI Safety solutions.
This event will focus on the interplay between technical AI safety work and international AI governance and will feature panels on international cooperation in AI safety, AISI coordination, and AI safety at frontier labs.
This event is invitation-only for policymakers, AI Safety researchers and entrepreneurs, frontier labs, as well as investors.
February 9, 13:30 - 22:30 in Paris
This event will be hosted by the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (MBRSG), with the support of Future of Life Institute.
Featured Guests
Scientific director of Mila
Turing Award winner and chair of the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI
Yoshua Bengio
Professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley
Stuart Russell
Adviser for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the European AI Office at the European Commission
Juha Heikkilä
Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Dawn Song
Director of Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance, and Professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yi Zeng
Acting Head of the OECD AI and Emerging Digital Technologies. Overseeing GPAI & network of experts, OECD.AI Policy Observatory, OECD Global Forum on Emerging Technologies
Karine Perset
Programme
Opening remarks & International Cooperation in AI Safety
14:00–15:15
Opening remarks from MBRSG and FLI.
Presentation of the GRASP mapping
Roundtable featuring experts from RAND, OECD, UN, and top AI academics
Roundtable on AI Safety Institutes
15:20–16:00
Roundtable on global AISI efforts, featuring experts from China, US, Singapore, India, France
Roundtable on Investing in AI Safety
17:40–18:20
Speed presentations of AI Safety ventures and solutions providers
Closing panel with top AI investors and analysts
Reception & Evening Salon
18:30–22:00
Live AI demonstration across art, music and technical capabilities
Presentation by top think tanks, academics, and AI visionaries of their latest work
Cocktails reception with light dinner
Global Risk and AI Safety Preparedness
AI Safety Connect will feature the launch of the Global Risk and AI Safety Preparedness project (GRASP). GRASP is seeking to map, stress-test, and encourage uptake of specific solutions ensuring that deployed AI systems, particularly AGI and ASI, do not pose threats to public safety and critical infrastructures.
Our focus is directly on ambitious solutions for AGI/ASI safety, relying primarily on input from independent experts unaffiliated with the economic interests of AGI corporations. Will consult and involve Frontier Labs, while avoiding safety-washing and ensuring all type of effective safety measures are being uncovered. We will provide forward-looking AGI Safety solutions to be leverage by policy proposals.
While AI has massively transformative power for good, GRASP is specifically focusing on solutions to counter endogenous risks (conducted outside human supervision) and exogenous risks (conducted under human supervision) associated with AGI.