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
Executive Director

Conor McGurk
Managing Director

Lilian Hughes
Head of Events

Isabella Duan
AI Policy Researcher

Saad Siddiqui
AI Policy Researcher

Cynthia Chen
Affiliate

Oliver Guest
Affiliate

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

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

Zhang HongJiang 张宏江
Founding Chairman of the Beijing Academy of AI

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

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