How it started
2024 | PARIS AI ACTION SUMMIT
AI Safety Connect was born at the February 2025 Paris AI Action Summit, recognizing the urgent need to address the shift away from the focus on global coordination on AI Safety launched by the UK at the Bletchley Summit. AI Safety Connect provides a platform to spotlight advanced AI safety within high-level, multilateral AI governance forums.
Described by participants at the Paris AI Action Summit as “the most substantive side event", AI Safety Connect launched with the support of the Future of Life Institute (FLI) and of the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (MBRSG).
How we operate
We operate on the following assumptions about transformative AI systems:
Imminent Possibility: Decision-makers must grapple with considerable uncertainty around AGI/ASI development timelines. Transformative systems may emerge within quarters rather than decades, making it essential that current leadership help shift away from dangerous racing dynamics toward responsible, coordinated approaches for safe and beneficial AI.
Cooperation Imperative: It is vital and urgent to forge connections and facilitate meaningful exchanges across traditional geographic and sectoral silos to build the relationships and communication channels necessary for effective coordination if/when advanced AI capabilities spike to dangerous levels.
Transformation Agency: Transformative AI systems are fundamentally reshaping economies, societies, and human agency. Policymakers and the public must be informed participants who can meaningfully influence the direction of AI development, not passive recipients of technological change.
How we create impact
2025 | PARIS AI ACTION SUMMIT
Our inaugural event at the Paris AI Action Summit in February 2025 successfully convened over 150 distinguished participants, including:
Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio and Professor Stuart Russell
Representatives from OECD.AI/GPAI, UNICRI, Microsoft, Government of India, Government of Singapore, Frontier Model Forum
Senior coverage from Axios, The Financial Times.
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The Case for AI Safety Connect
How do we build and future-proof technical and social governance systems for a technology that is fast and profoundly reshaping economies, societies, and the very conditions of post-WWII international security?
No one lab, state, local government, trade union, or any other relevant stakeholder can face this challenge alone. By bringing representatives from these areas together, AI Safety Connect seeks to weave a fabric of cooperation towards action.