Our mission
The International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI) is a non-profit organization founded to address the risks and opportunities associated with rapid advances in AI.
Our mission is to ensure that AI systems are guaranteed to operate safely and ethically; and to shape policy, promote research, and build understanding and community around this goal.
As AI systems become more capable and more directly involved in critical social and economic functions, it is essential to provide assurances that they will operate safely and benefit those affected. Policy innovations should encourage the development of AI systems that can support such assurances, with support from the AI research community. IASEAI will provide a unified voice for the many individuals, research groups, and organizations that share these goals and will help to create a global community to achieve them.
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Our goals
Policy Development
To achieve its mission, IASEAI will develop specific policy analyses in the areas of standards, regulation, international cooperation, and research funding. The analyses will be developed by area-specific working groups drawn from an expert network and published as position papers. The goal is to make quantitative assurances of safety and benefit the norm.
Research & Awards
IASEAI will promote a wide variety of technical and sociotechnical approaches to ensuring safe and ethical AI, targeting both existing and future harms, the security of AI systems, and methods of preventing unsafe AI systems from operating. Where appropriate, we may commission technical research in support of policy, regulation, and enforcement. We also recognize outstanding research papers and senior and early-career researchers working on technical and policy topics related to safe and ethical AI through awards and fellowships.
Education
IASEAI's work aims to reach both technical and non-technical audiences at different levels of education—including the general public, civil society, journalists, policymakers, and businesses—across a wide range of countries. This is achieved through course development, educational videos and web content, an expert speakers bureau, and media placement.
Building Community
One of our main functions is to organize an annual international research conference and regular workshops designed to stimulate and showcase research advances in the field of safe and ethical AI. Presented research will be representative of the diverse interests, needs, and preferences of all relevant stakeholders, including the public and social groups impacted by AI, civil society, businesses, the press, policymakers, and government.