ICT4Peace had the pleasure to participate in The International Association for Safe and Ethical AI inaugural conference (IASEAI ‘25) on Feb 6-7, 2025 at the OECD La Muette Headquarters and Conference Centre in Paris, ahead of the Paris AI Action Summit.
The inaugural conference of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI ’25) took place on February 6-7, 2025, at the OECD La Muette Headquarters in Paris. This event brought together leading experts from academia, industry, government, and civil society to discuss the latest developments in AI safety and ethics. Please see the Programm here: https://www.iaseai.org/conference/program.
And the recordings here: https://www.iaseai.org/conference/livestream.I recommend tho watch the statements and presentations of Geoffrey Hinton, Stuart Russel and Yoshua Bengio starting at 08:58. The presentation by Kate Crawford and Maria Tessa is also very interesting.
Keynote Speakers and Their Contributions:
Yoshua Bengio: A Turing Award winner and professor at the Université de Montréal, Bengio discussed the scientific benefits of AI and the challenges of mitigating risks associated with autonomous agents.
Anca Dragan: As Director of AI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind, Dragan addressed the path to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), emphasizing the importance of safety and responsibility in its development.
Geoffrey Hinton: A Turing Award winner and Nobel laureate, Hinton explored the concept of understanding in AI, providing insights into the cognitive aspects of machine learning.
Maria Ressa: A Nobel Peace Laureate and CEO of Rappler, Ressa discussed the intersection of AI and media, highlighting the ethical considerations in the dissemination of information.
Margaret Mitchell: As Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face, Mitchell presented on developing ethical AI, focusing on frameworks and methodologies to ensure AI systems align with human values.
Joseph Stiglitz: A Nobel laureate in economics, Stiglitz addressed AI and economic risk, discussing assessment and mitigation strategies to prevent economic disparities exacerbated by AI technologies.
Max Tegmark: President of the Future of Life Institute, Tegmark presented on red lines for existential control, emphasizing the need for boundaries to prevent AI from posing existential threats.
Kate Crawford: A research professor at the University of Southern California and senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, Crawford discussed the global challenge of sustainability in AI, focusing on environmental and societal impacts.
Amandeep Singh Gill Undersecretary-General and Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology at the United Nations, Gill provided insights into the global landscape of AI governance, highlighting international efforts to regulate and guide AI development.
Stuart Russell: A distinguished professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI, Russell delivered the closing statement, summarizing key discussions and outlining future directions for AI safety and ethics.
The conference featured plenary sessions and specialized tracks on topics such as global coordination, safety engineering, manipulation, alignment, interpretability, and controlling real systems. These sessions provided a platform for in-depth discussions and the development of strategies to address the challenges and opportunities presented by AI technologies.
Overall, IASEAI ’25 served as a significant milestone in fostering global collaboration and advancing the discourse on the safe and ethical development of AI.