IASEAI ‘25
Program

Program overview

The International Association for Safe and Ethical AI inaugural conference (IASEAI ‘25) will convene leading experts from academia, civil society, industry, media, and government, to discuss the latest developments in AI safety and ethics. See our high-level program overview* below:

*Subject to change, exact times and complete program page coming soon.

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Thursday, February 6

  • 8:00 am
  • Registration and networking
  • 9:30 am–6:00 pm
  • Program with lunch and breaks
  • 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
  • Reception

Morning Plenary Talks

  • IASEAI Leadership Welcome and Opening Remarks
  • Geoffrey Hinton (Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto; 2024 Nobel laureate in Physics; 2018 Turing Award) -- Talk Title TBA
  • Anca Dragan (Director of AI Safety and Alignment, Google DeepMind; Associate Professor, UC Berkeley EECS) -- Navigating the road to AGI
  • Yoshua Bengio (Professor, Université de Montréal; 2018 Turing Award) -- Can we get the scientific benefits of AI without the risks of autonomous agents?

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Morning Breakout Session Tracks

Track 01: Global coordination

  • Duncan Cass-Beggs (Exec. Dir., Global AI Risks Initiative, Centre for Int’l Governance Innovation) -- Building blocks for international cooperation on next generation AI
  • Charles Martinet (Head of Policy, Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA - CeSIA) – International AI Safety Assurance Agreements : Lessons from History, Feasibility Factors, and Hypotheses for the Future
  • More TBA

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Track 02: Safety engineering and AI

  • Thomas Dietterich (University Distinguished Prof. Emeritus, Oregon State University) – Changing machine learning methods to operate in safety-critical domains
  • Peng Wei (Associate Prof., George Washington University) – AI Safety in Aviation and Avionics Applications
  • Umair Siddique (Co-Founder and CEO, reasonX Labs) – Safety of AI-Powered Robots: Dimensions, Challenges, and a Way Forward

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Track 03: Manipulation

  • Nuno Moniz (Associate Research Prof., University of Notre Dame) – Can LLMs Change Our Past?‍
  • Saadia Gabriel (Assistant Prof., University of California, Los Angeles) – Simulating Emergent LLM Social Behaviors in Multi-Agent Systems
  • More TBA

Afternoon Plenary Talks

  • Margaret Mitchell (Chief Ethics Scientist and Researcher, Hugging Face) 
  • Maria Ressa (Co-Founder and CEO, Rappler; 2021 Nobel Peace laureate) – in conversation with Philip Chetwynd (Global News Director, Agence France-Presse)

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Afternoon Breakout Session Tracks

Track 04: Global perspectives

  • Divya Siddarth(Founder & Exec. Dir., Collective Intelligence Project) – Building Collective Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence
  • Panel on Global perspectives TBA

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Track 05: Controlling real systems

  • George Pappas (UPS Foundation Prof., University of Pennsylvania) – Jailbreaking LLM-controlled robots
  • Buck Shlegeris (CEO, Redwood Research) – Mitigating catastrophic misalignment risk with AI control
  • More TBA

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Track 06: Alignment

  • Peter Railton (Professor, University of Michigan) – Real Ethics for Artificial Agents?
  • Iason Gabriel (Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind) –
    A Matter of Principle? AI Alignment as the Fair Treatment of Claims
  • Lindsay Sanneman (Assistant Prof., Arizona State University) – Transparent Value Alignment: Foundations for Human-Centered Explainable AI in Alignment
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Reception

Friday, February 7

  • 8:00 am
  • Registration and networking begins
  • 9:30 am–6:30 pm
  • Program with lunch and breaks

Morning Plenary Talks

  • Amandeep Gill (Under-Secretary-General and Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, United Nations) -- Talk Title TBA
  • Joseph Stiglitz (Professor, Columbia University; 2001 Nobel laureate in Economics) -- Talk Title TBA
  • Kate Crawford (Research Professor, University of Southern California; Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research) -- Hyperscaled: The Global Challenge of Sustainability in AI

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Morning Breakout Session Tracks

Track 07: Frontier model policy

  • Benjamin Hilton (Safety Cases Strategy Lead, UK AI Safety Institute) – Safety Cases: A Scalable Approach to Frontier AI Safety
  • Irene Solaiman (Head of Global Policy, Hugging Face) – Insider’s Outlook on Global AI Coordination
  • Chandler Smith (Research Engineer, Cooperative AI Foundation) – Better Benchmarks: A Roadmap for High-Stakes Evaluation in the Age of Agentic AI
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Track 08: Alignment and social choice

  • ‍Vincent Conitzer (Professor, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Oxford) – Getting AI Systems (Collectively) to Behave the Way We (Collectively) Want Them To
  • Evi Micha (Assistant Prof., University of Southern California) – Axioms for AI Alignment from Human Feedback
  • Smitha Milli (Research Scientist, Meta FAIR) – Talk Title TBA

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Track 09: Algorithmic Fairness

  • More TBA

Afternoon Breakout Session Tracks

Track 10: AI, public perception, disinformation

  • Julia Angwin (Founder, Proof News) – AI & Elections: What We Learned in 2024
  • Inyoung Cheong (Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy) – AI Manipulation and Freedom of Thought
  • More TBA

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Track 11: Agents

  • Arthur Holland (Researcher, PRIO) – “I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That”: Unresolved Questions Around Agentic Refusal
  • Zhijing Jin (Assistant Prof., University of Toronto) – AI Safety in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
  • Michael Wellman (Professor, University of Michigan) – Understanding the Implications of AI on Financial Markets

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Track 12: Interpretability

  • More TBA

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Afternoon Plenary Talks/Panel

  • Max Tegmark (Professor, MIT) -- Talk Title TBA
  • Panel: Macro-strategy for Safe and Ethical AI -- More TBA

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Closing Remarks

  • Stuart Russell (Professor, UC Berkeley) – Future of IASEAI
  • More TBA