Every speaker shapes a Better Societies program directly. Their research defines the safety standards AI systems must meet globally. Explore each expert below.
Each expert shapes a Better Societies program. They contribute to the Summit curriculum, mentor Accelerator cohorts, and advise on EU AI Act compliance.
Roman Yampolskiy
University of Louisville
AI safety and controllability. Author of "AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable."
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Wendell Wallach
Yale Center for Bioethics
AI governance and moral machine ethics. Author of "Moral Machines."
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Alan Winfield
IEEE / Bristol Robotics Lab
Robot ethics standards author and IEEE Fellow. Shapes AI ethics policy globally.
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Raja Chatila
Sorbonne / IEEE
Human-robot interaction and AI ethics. Past president of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
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Risto Miikkulainen
UT Austin / Cognizant
Neuroevolution pioneer. Professor at UT Austin and VP Research at Cognizant.
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Toby Walsh
UNSW Sydney
Leading AI researcher and outspoken advocate for a ban on autonomous weapons.
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John C. Havens
IEEE Global Initiative
Author of IEEE's "Ethically Aligned Design." Executive Director of IEEE Global AI Ethics Initiative.
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Alex Polyakov
Adversa AI
Adversarial AI and red-teaming. Founder of Adversa AI and leading voice on AI attack surfaces.
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Olaf Witkowski
Cross Labs
AI emergence and complexity science. CEO of Cross Labs and research partner at Sony CSL.
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Kathleen Richardson
De Montfort University
Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI. Author of leading AI ethics texts.
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