AI Action Summit - Pilot Event

With the generous support of Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (MBRSG) and Future of Life Institute, we organized a side event to the Paris AI Action Summit over the afternoon and evening of February 9th.

The participants heard from notable academics such as Stuart Russell, Yoshua Bengio and Dawn Song, alongside industry representatives from Anthropic, Frontier Model Forum and ex-Open AI employees, investors, as well as representatives for AI Safety/Security Institutes and their equivalents.

The headline initiative at the event was the presentation of a global mapping general-purpose AI safety tools and solutions.

The mapping effort is conducted in partnership with Project SAFE of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) and its Tokyo Centre of Expertise, and it will be published on the OECD's AI Observatory. It will take the form of an interactive user interface designed to assist policymakers, entrepreneurs, frontier labs, and investors in navigating these solutions.

This invitation-only event was attended by several hundred policymakers, AI Safety researchers and entrepreneurs, frontier labs, as well as investors. 

Schedule

14:00–14:20

Opening Remarks

Why AI Safety is important and why we need international collaboration on AIS

  • Max Tegmark, FLI

  • Fadi Salem, MBRSG

  • XIAO Qian, Vice Dean of I-AIIG, Tsinghua

14:20–14:35

Presentation of the Global Risk and AI Safety Preparedness mapping

  • Cyrus Hodes, MBRSG/OECD.ai/GPAI

  • Charbel-Raphael Segerie, CeSIA

  • Jonathan Claybrough, CeSIA

14:35–15:15

Roundtable on International Cooperation in AI Safety

  • Irakli Beridze, UNICRI

  • Yoshua Bengio, MILA

  • Stuart Russell, CHAI

  • Dean Xue Lan, Institute for AI International Governance, Tsinghua University

  • Dawn Song, UC Berkeley

Moderated by Karine Perset, OECD

15:20–16:00

Roundtable on AI Safety Institutes

  • Yi Zeng, Beijing AISI

  • Wan Sie Lee, Singapore AISI

  • Juha Heikkilä, European Comission

  • Agnes Delaborde, LNE

  • Abhishek Singh, Ministry of Electronics and IT, India

Moderated by Yuko Harayama, GPAI

16:00–16:55

Roundtable on Frontier Labs and AI Safety

Part 1: Are frontier labs ready for AGI? (40’)

  • Chris Meserole, Frontier Model Forum

  • Michael Sellitto, Anthropic

  • Katarina Slama, ex OpenAI

  • Miles Brundage, ex Head of Policy Research OpenAI

  • Roman Yampolskiy, University of Louisville

    Moderated by Nicholas Dirks, New York Academy of Sciences

17:10–17:40

Speed presentations of AI Safety ventures and solutions providers

Intro: Shameek Kundu, AI Verify Foundation 

  • Nicolas Miailhe, PRISM Eval

  • Kristian Rönn, Lucid computing

  • April Chin and Oliver Salzmann, Resaro.ai

  • Gabriel Alfour, Conjecture

  • Matija Franklin, UCL (an Infinitio AI project)

17:40–18:20

Roundtable on Investing in AI Safety

  • Ben Cy, Temasek

  • Nick Fitz, Juniper Ventures/AI Assurance Market Report

  • Jaan Tallinn, Co-founder Skype, Metaplanet

  • Brandon Goldman, Lionheart Ventures

Moderated by Seth Dobrin, 1infinity Ventures, former Chief AI Officer of IBM

18:30–20:00

Cocktail reception

20:00–22:00

Evening salon

AI expert and artists will demonstrate the capabilities and dangers of AI systems:

  • GenAI music and art performance

  • Live deepfakes demonstrations with CivAI

  • Live AI jailbreaking by PRISM Eval

  • AI Agents: Demonstrations of AI deception and AI pursuing unaligned goals

Think tanks, academics and AI visionaries will present their latest publications:

  • Nell Watson: Safer Agentic AI Guidelines

  • Roman Yampolskiy: AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable

  • Max Tegmark: Life 3.0

  • Kristian Rönn: The Darwinian Trap 

  • Haydn Belfield, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Cambridge University: Computing Power and the Governance of AI 

  • Saurabh Mishra, Taiyō.AI: Reliability, Resilience and Human Factors Engineering for Trustworthy AI Systems 

  • Charbel Segerie, Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA: AI Safety Atlas

  • Caroline Jeanmaire, The Future Society: Global Consultations for France’s 2025 AI Action Summit

  • Adam Shimi, Control AI: A Narrow Path

  • Eva Behrens, Conjecture: The Compendium