AI Safety Accelerator
Better Societies convenes the world's leading AI safety researchers, founders, policymakers, and investors to tackle existential AI threats head-on. 3 programs. 1 mission.
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Better Societies operates with 10+ confirmed AI safety experts from institutions like Yale, IEEE, Bristol Robotics Lab, UT Austin, and Sorbonne. Every program is shaped by the people defining AI safety standards globally.
Each card represents one of the 10 existential threats Better Societies works to address. Click to read the full report.
Loss of control
AI acting outside intended objectives once deployed at scale.
Misalignment 02Autonomous weapons
AI-driven weapons making lethal decisions without human review.
Misuse 03AI-enabled bioweapons
AI lowering the barrier to creating biological threats.
Misuse 04AI cyber warfare
AI-augmented offensive cyber capabilities targeting critical infrastructure.
Security 05Mass unemployment
Rapid labor displacement outpacing economic adjustment mechanisms.
Systemic 06AI surveillance
AI scaling state and corporate surveillance beyond historical limits.
Concentration 07AI misinformation
Generated content eroding public information integrity and trust.
Misinformation 08Recursive self-improvement
AI improving its own capabilities faster than human oversight can react.
Misalignment 09AI-accelerated climate
Compute demand and AI-driven extraction worsening environmental trajectories.
Systemic 10AI space-based threats
AI-controlled space assets introducing new categories of strategic risk.
MisuseSource: Slattery et al. The AI Risk Repository, arxiv:2408.12622. Categories from the MIT Domain Taxonomy.
Whether you're building a startup, advising policy, or ensuring your AI is compliant, there's a program built for you.
For anyone advancing AI safety: founders, researchers, policymakers, activists, investors, and governments.
Ongoing virtual summit with the world's leading AI safety experts, including Roman Yampolskiy, Wendell Wallach, Alan Winfield, and 10+ others.
Done-for-you documentation and conformity assessment for companies building high-risk AI systems.
Each expert shapes Better Societies programs directly. Their research defines the standards AI systems must meet globally.
Roman Yampolskiy
Univ. of Louisville
AI safety and controllability research that anchors our loss-of-control threat curriculum.
Wendell Wallach
Yale Center for Bioethics
AI governance and moral machine ethics, frames Better Societies' policy and compliance work.
Alan Winfield
Bristol Robotics Lab / IEEE
Robot ethics standards author, brings IEEE-level rigor to our Accelerator's ethics framework.
Raja Chatila
Sorbonne / IEEE
Human-robot interaction and AI ethics, shapes how Better Societies defines trustworthy AI.
Risto Miikkulainen
UT Austin / Cognizant
Neuroevolution and AI cognition research, advises on recursive self-improvement risks.
Toby Walsh
UNSW Sydney
Leading voice on autonomous weapons bans, advises our policy and activist program tracks.
John C. Havens
IEEE Global Initiative
Author of IEEE's Ethically Aligned Design, co-designed the Summit's governance curriculum.
Alex Polyakov
Adversa AI
Adversarial AI and red-teaming specialist, informs our AI cyber warfare and misuse threat research.
Olaf Witkowski
Cross Labs
AI emergence and complexity science, advises on systemic risk scenarios for the Accelerator.
Kathleen Richardson
De Montfort University
AI ethics and social impact research, grounds our program's human dignity and rights framing.
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