Preview: Concordia AI's Frontier AI Safety and Governance Forum at the World AI Conference
Concordia AI is excited to announce that we are hosting the Frontier AI Safety and Governance Forum at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 5 from 9 AM to 5 PM. WAIC is China’s biggest AI conference this year and has been elevated to include a High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance attended by diplomats and experts from around the world.
We have put together an amazing lineup of speakers and invite our readers to register to join in-person or livestream the event using the WAIC website (morning, afternoon). We are pleased that most speakers are able to join us in-person in Shanghai for this exciting event.
Our forum will include 18 keynote speeches, 4 roundtables, and 1 fireside chat by 20+ Chinese and international experts. The day is split up into 4 key themes:
AI Safety Research: We are honored to invite Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, who recently led the publication of the International Scientific Report on Advanced AI Safety, to present on key findings of the report. In addition, Academician GAO Wen (高文), Academician Zhang Ya-Qin (张亚勤), and UC Berkeley Professor Dawn Song will give talks on AI safety and security risks. We will also invite several Chinese academics leading AI safety research groups to discuss research directions for AI safety.
AI Safety Testing: We will welcome top figures in AI safety evaluations and red-teaming to give speeches on this fast-developing field. This session will feature QIAO Yu (乔宇), assistant director of Shanghai AI Lab (SHLAB); WEI Kai (魏凯), Director of the AI Research Institute at the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT); and Chris Meserole, executive director of the Frontier Model Forum. We will additionally welcome Tianjin University NLP Lab Director XIONG Deyi (熊德意) and Singapore Chief AI Officer Ruimin He for a panel discussion on emerging practices for such assessments.
AI Safety Guidance: For this theme, we will receive presentations on the AI governance approaches of France by Inria research center’s Gaël Varoquaux, of Singapore by Chief AI Officer Ruimin He, of China by China University of Political Science and Law Professor ZHANG Linghan (张凌寒), and of the US by UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI Executive Director Mark Nitzberg. For a panel discussion to share lessons on domestic AI governance, we will also be joined by former Shanghai Jiao Tong University Dean JI Weidong (季卫东) and SHLAB Governance Research Center Deputy Director WANG Yingchun (王迎春).
International Cooperation: Our final theme will be on global AI governance. We will feature speeches by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) President Tino Cuéllar, Tsinghua University Dean XUE Lan (薛澜), Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor ZENG Yi (曾毅), Hugging Face Head of Global Policy Irene Solaiman, Oxford University Professor Robert Trager, and Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) expert Duncan Cass-Beggs. CEIP fellow Matt Sheehan will also join a panel on priorities for international AI cooperation.
We are delighted to have leading AI scientist and industry veteran ZHOU Bowen (周伯文) deliver the closing remarks for our forum.
You can find the full agenda below or online (morning, afternoon).
