AI Safety: 3 programs, 1 mission

Build a safe AI future of sustainable abundance.

We're solving the Top 10 Existential Threats of AI by helping you launch a funded, compliant, and profitable AI safety project in 12 weeks or less, and by getting your company's AI fully EU AI Act compliant before the August 2026 deadline.

For people who see the AI safety problem and refuse to wait for someone else to solve it.

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Speed without safety is reckless. Safety without speed is irrelevant. Better Societies exists to give you both.

Better Societies works with 10+ confirmed AI safety experts from institutions like Yale, IEEE, UT Austin, Sorbonne, and De Montfort University. Every program is shaped by the people defining AI safety standards globally.

Confirmed experts 10+ AI safety researchers, policy advisers, and operators from Yale, IEEE, UT Austin, Sorbonne, and more.
Community members 92+ Founders, researchers, policy advisers, and investors building safer AI.
Active programs 3 EU AI Act compliance, AI Safety Accelerator, and the AI Safety Summit.

The Top 10 Existential AI Threats™, from the Better Societies report.

Each card represents one of the 10 existential threats Better Societies works to address. Click to read the full report.

01

Loss of control over superintelligent AI

AI acting outside intended objectives once deployed at scale, with no reliable off switch.

Misalignment 02

Autonomous weapons systems and military AI

AI-driven weapons making lethal decisions without meaningful human review.

Misuse 03

AI-enabled biological weapons and pandemic risks

AI lowering the barrier to creating engineered biological threats at scale.

Misuse 04

Critical infrastructure collapse from AI cyber warfare

AI-augmented offensive cyber capabilities targeting critical infrastructure.

Security 05

Economic and social collapse from mass unemployment

Rapid labor displacement outpacing the economy's ability to adapt and absorb.

Systemic 06

AI-powered surveillance and authoritarian control

AI scaling state and corporate surveillance beyond any historical limits on power.

Concentration 07

AI-enabled misinformation and democratic collapse

AI-generated content eroding public information integrity and democratic trust.

Misinformation 08

Recursive self-improvement and intelligence explosion

AI improving its own capabilities faster than human oversight can track or constrain.

Misalignment 09

AI-accelerated climate change and environmental destruction

Compute demand and AI-driven resource extraction worsening environmental trajectories.

Systemic 10

AI-enabled space-based threats and orbital warfare

AI-controlled space assets introducing new categories of strategic and orbital risk.

Misuse

3 ways to build a safer AI future.

Whether you're launching an AI safety project, attending the free Summit, or getting your AI product compliant before 2 August 2026, there's a program built for where you are right now.

Accelerator

AI Safety Accelerator

The AI Safety Accelerator is a fully virtual, global 12-week program for anyone launching an AI safety project, whether for-profit or non-profit. Researchers, founders, policymakers, activists, and operators all qualify, and you go from idea to launched with live curriculum, expert mentorship, and funder introductions. Direct introductions to investors and partners actively funding AI safety are built into every cohort.

  • Weekly live masterclasses from confirmed AI safety experts
  • Connect with co-founders, advisors, and investors from day one
  • Open to all ICPs: researchers, founders, policymakers, activists, and operators
  • Fully remote, open to participants anywhere in the world
Apply to the Accelerator
Virtual summit

AI Safety Summit

The AI Safety Summit is an ongoing virtual summit featuring recorded masterclasses and live sessions from the world's leading AI safety experts. It's free to register and open to every researcher, founder, policymaker, and investor working on AI safety. Summit speaker network includes Roman Yampolskiy, Wendell Wallach, Alan Winfield, Raja Chatila, and 10+ others shaping global AI safety standards.

  • On-demand masterclasses on the top 10 existential AI threats
  • Live sessions and weekly community calls with confirmed experts
  • Free access to the Better Societies community of 92+ members
  • Deep-dive discussions shaped by the people defining global AI safety standards
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Done-for-you

EU AI Act Compliance

August 2 2026 is the binding enforcement date for most EU AI Act obligations, including Article 50 transparency, GPAI model rules, and the prohibitions. We deliver done-for-you Annex IV technical documentation, risk management systems, and conformity assessments so you're regulator-ready before the deadline. Only Annex III high-risk systems received a deferral, to 2 December 2027, under the Digital Omnibus agreement of 7 May 2026.

  • Done-for-you Annex IV technical file, risk management system, and human oversight policy
  • Regulator-acceptable documentation at a fraction of Big Four firm rates
  • Entry from a 1,000 euro diagnostic, scaling to full done-for-you conformity at 25,000 euro
  • 12-month audit defense and satisfaction guarantee included
Get compliant

10+ confirmed AI safety experts.

Each expert shapes Better Societies programs directly. Their research defines the standards AI systems must meet globally.

Roman Yampolskiy

Roman Yampolskiy

Univ. of Louisville

AI safety and controllability research that anchors our loss-of-control threat curriculum.
Wendell Wallach

Wendell Wallach

Yale Center for Bioethics

AI governance and moral machine ethics, frames Better Societies' policy and compliance work.
Alan Winfield

Alan Winfield

IEEE / Bristol Robotics Lab

Robot ethics standards author, brings IEEE-level rigor to our Accelerator's ethics framework.
Raja Chatila

Raja Chatila

Sorbonne / IEEE

Human-robot interaction and AI ethics, shapes how Better Societies defines trustworthy AI.
Risto Miikkulainen

Risto Miikkulainen

UT Austin / Cognizant

Neuroevolution and AI cognition research, advises on recursive self-improvement risks.
Toby Walsh

Toby Walsh

UNSW Sydney

Leading voice on autonomous weapons bans, advises our policy and activist program tracks.
John C. Havens

John C. Havens

IEEE Global Initiative

Author of IEEE's Ethically Aligned Design, co-designed the Summit's governance curriculum.
Alex Polyakov

Alex Polyakov

Adversa AI

Adversarial AI and red-teaming specialist, informs our cyber warfare and misuse threat research.
Olaf Witkowski

Olaf Witkowski

Cross Labs

AI emergence and complexity science, advises on systemic risk scenarios for the Accelerator.
Kathleen Richardson

Kathleen Richardson

De Montfort University

AI ethics and social impact research, grounds our program's human dignity and rights framing.

Which one fits you?

8 paths. Pick the one that matches your situation and we'll take it from there.

Compliance

Your company ships AI into the EU market.

EU AI Act obligations bind on 2 August 2026. Get done-for-you documentation before the enforcement date.

Get compliant
Builder

You're launching an AI safety startup, non-profit, or research project.

The Accelerator is open to any ICP building in AI safety, for-profit or non-profit alike.

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Researcher

You research AI safety, alignment, or AI governance.

Join the community, access the Summit masterclasses, and find a path to speak or contribute to the curriculum.

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Policymaker

You shape AI policy or represent a government body.

Access the Summit's policy track and connect directly with experts shaping global AI safety standards.

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Investor

You invest in or fund AI safety projects.

Get deal flow from vetted AI safety startups graduating from the Accelerator. Start with our investor brief.

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Partner

You want to sponsor or partner with the mission.

Support the AI Safety Summit and Accelerator and reach a global field of researchers, founders, and policymakers.

Become a sponsor
Activist

You advocate for AI safety and responsible AI policy.

Join the community of activists, researchers, and policymakers working on AI safety issues together.

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Media

You cover AI safety, AI policy, or technology.

Get press materials, expert quotes, and embargoed research from the Better Societies team.

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The AI safety community that works with you, not at you.

Join 92+ founders, researchers, policymakers, and investors building safer AI. Access peers, live sessions, and expert masterclasses from the day you join.

Peers who get it

Connect directly with founders, researchers, policymakers, and investors working on the same problems.

Expert masterclasses

On-demand sessions from confirmed AI safety experts. New content each month from the people defining global standards.

Weekly live call

Join the weekly community call. Ask questions, share progress, and get unfiltered input from the group.

First value in minutes

The moment you join, you get access to our AI Safety Quickstart Guide: a concise map of the top 10 existential AI threats and the concrete actions your team can take this week.

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