Our mission

The Safe AI Forum’s mission is to drive global coordination that minimizes extreme AI risks and ensures the benefits of AI are shared by all.

We foster responsible governance to reduce catastrophic risks through shared understanding and collaboration among key global actors.

Team

Meet the team behind IDAIS and other international AI Safety programs. 

Fynn Heide

Fynn Heide

Executive Director

Conor McGurk

Conor McGurk

Managing Director

Lilian Hughes

Lilian Hughes

Head of Events

Isabella Duan

Isabella Duan

AI Policy Researcher

Saad Siddiqui

Saad Siddiqui

AI Policy Researcher

Cynthia Chen

Cynthia Chen

Affiliate

Oliver Guest

Oliver Guest

Affiliate

Advisors
Stuart Russell

Stuart Russell

Professor and Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley

Gillian Hadfield

Gillian Hadfield

Incoming Professor at the School of Government and Policy and School of Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University

IDAIS Conveners
Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio

Professor at the Université de Montréal; the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute, Turing Award Winner

Andrew Yao 姚期智

Andrew Yao 姚期智

Dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences and Dean of the College of Artificial Intelligence at Tsinghua University, Turing Award Winner

Ya-Qin Zhang 张亚勤

Ya-Qin Zhang 张亚勤

Director of the Tsinghua Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Former President of Baidu

Stuart Russell

Stuart Russell

Professor and Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley

Contact

Reach out to us to collaborate and learn more.

Safe AI Forum (SAIF) brings together leading scientists from around the world to collaborate on mitigating risks from AI, via our International Dialogues on AI Safety (IDAIS) events series, research, and advisory work. Let us know how we can work together.