IASEAI’25 Call to Action

IASEAI’25 Conference

We hosted our inaugural conference in February 2025 at the OECD La Muette Headquarters and Conference Centre in Paris, ahead of the Paris AI Action Summit.

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Event Highlights

IASEAI’25 marked a significant milestone for the International Association for Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence, bringing together leading voices from across technical research, policy development, industry, and civil society. The event attracted over 700 in-person participants from 65 countries, with over 1,400 attending online. Conference highlights included substantive policy discussions, technical presentations from prominent AI safety and ethics researchers, and the emergence of many cross-disciplinary collaborations that continue to advance the organization’s mission.

Featured Speakers

Yoshua Bengio

Full Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, Université de Montréal; Co-president and Scientific Director, LawZero; Founder and Scientific Advisor, Mila - Quebec AI Institute; Turing Award winner (2018)

Kate Crawford

Research professor, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California; senior principal researcher, Microsoft Research

Anca Dragan

Director of AI safety and alignment, Google DeepMind; associate professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

Amandeep Singh Gill

Undersecretary-General of the United Nations and Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology

Geoffrey Hinton

Professor emeritus, University of Toronto; Turing Award winner (2018); Nobel laureate (physics, 2024)

Margaret Mitchell

Chief ethics scientist and researcher, Hugging Face

Maria Ressa

Co-Founder and CEO of Rappler, Nobel laureate (peace, 2021), Professor, SIPA, Columbia University

Stuart Russell

Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley; Director, Center for Human-Compatible AI; President pro tem, IASEAI

Joseph Stiglitz

Professor, Department of Economics, Columbia University; Nobel laureate (economics, 2001)

Max Tegmark

Professor, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; President, Future of Life Institute

Presentations

Stuart Russell

IASEAI and the Future

Anca Dragan

Navigating the Path to AGI Safely & Responsibly

Joseph Stiglitz

AI and Economic Risk

Kate Crawford

Hyperscaled: The Global Challenge of Sustainability in AI

Geoffrey Hinton

What Is Understanding?

Max Tegmark

Red Lines for Existential Control

Divya Siddharth

Building Collective Intelligence with AI

Margaret Mitchell

Paths for Developing Ethical AI

Maria Ressa and Philip Chetwynd

Outlook: AI & Media – Maria Ressa & Philip Chetwynd

Yoshua Bengio

Scientific AI Without Agentic Risks

IASEAI Issues Call to Action Ahead of AI Summit in Paris

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The International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI) is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to ensuring that AI systems operate safely and ethically, benefiting all of humanity.