International Association for Safe & Ethical AI (IASEAI)

The International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI, pronounced 'eye-see-eye') is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in 2024. It was co-founded by Stuart Russell, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI), and Mark Nitzberg, who also serves as Executive Director of CHAI. The organization's stated 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.

IASEAI works across four strategic pillars. On policy, it convenes working groups that produce position papers on AI standards, regulation, and international cooperation frameworks. On research, it promotes technical and sociotechnical safety approaches and recognizes outstanding contributions to the field. On education, it aims to reach diverse audiences including the general public, journalists, policymakers, and businesses through course development, educational videos, a speakers bureau, and media engagement. On community building, it organizes an annual international conference and regular workshops.

The inaugural IASEAI conference (IASEAI '25) was held February 6-7, 2025 at the OECD La Muette Headquarters in Paris, preceding the Paris AI Action Summit. It attracted over 700 in-person attendees from 65 countries and more than 1,400 online participants across plenary sessions and tracks on global coordination, safety engineering, alignment, interpretability, manipulation, and disinformation. The second annual conference (IASEAI '26) was hosted in February 2026 at UNESCO House in Paris and brought together more than 1,300 participants from nearly 100 countries. The organization has also established an affiliate program, with organizations such as Concordia AI and the University of Kansas Institute for Information Sciences joining as affiliates.

IASEAI received a general support grant of $1,850,000 from the Future of Life Institute in February 2025. The organization is headquartered at 501 W Broadway, Suite 1540, San Diego, CA 92101, and accepts direct donations via its website. The steering committee includes prominent figures such as Yoshua Bengio, Kate Crawford, Eric Horvitz, Max Tegmark, and other leading academics, technologists, and policy experts.