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The Better Societies AI Safety Summit

The people shaping AI safety policy and research are hard to reach. This summit puts them in one place. An ongoing virtual summit with the world's leading AI safety researchers, ethicists, and policymakers. Free to register. Unlock every masterclass on demand.

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10 of the world's leading AI safety voices

Each speaker has delivered a recorded masterclass available free after registration.

Roman Yampolskiy Roman Yampolskiy University of Louisville, AI Safety Researcher Wendell Wallach Wendell Wallach Carnegie-Uehiro Fellow, AI Ethics and Governance Alan Winfield Alan Winfield Professor of Robot Ethics, UWE Bristol Raja Chatila Raja Chatila Professor Emeritus, Sorbonne University Alex Polyakov Alex Polyakov Co-Founder and CEO, Adversa AI Kathleen Richardson Kathleen Richardson Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots, De Montfort Risto Miikkulainen Risto Miikkulainen Professor, UT Austin. VP AI Research, Cognizant Toby Walsh Toby Walsh Scientia Professor of AI, UNSW. Chief Scientist, UNSW.ai John C. Havens John C. Havens Global Director, IEEE Planet Positive 2030 Olaf Witkowski Olaf Witkowski President, International Society for Artificial Life

Masterclass library

10 masterclasses. Free after registration.

Each session runs 45 to 90 minutes. Register once to unlock the full library and get notified when new sessions drop.

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Roman Yampolskiy
Roman Yampolskiy
University of Louisville

AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable

Why containment is harder than it looks, why alignment errors may be irreversible, and what founders and policymakers must do differently now.

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Wendell Wallach
Wendell Wallach
Carnegie-Uehiro Fellow

3 Lessons to Master AI Safety and Governance

Practical lessons from decades of AI ethics research on building governance frameworks that actually hold as AI capabilities accelerate.

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Alan Winfield
Alan Winfield
UWE Bristol

The Ethical Black Box: From Transparency to Accountability in Agents, Robots and AI

How the Ethical Black Box concept makes autonomous systems accountable, and what it means for the AI Act's transparency obligations.

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Raja Chatila
Raja Chatila
Sorbonne University

How AI Manipulates Us: The Ethics of Human-Robot Interaction

The subtle ways AI and robots shape human behaviour, what ethical design demands, and how governance can prevent manipulation at scale.

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Alex Polyakov
Alex Polyakov
Adversa AI

Red Teaming for AI Safety: Securing LLMs and Stopping Jailbreaks

What adversarial AI attacks look like in practice, how to red team your own LLM systems, and what the Coalition for Secure AI is building to stop them.

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Kathleen Richardson
Kathleen Richardson
De Montfort University

The Existential Threat of Love Robots

Why AI companionship and sex robots represent a deep ethical crisis, and what must happen before this technology spreads further.

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Risto Miikkulainen
Risto Miikkulainen
UT Austin / Cognizant

AI and Neuroevolution: How Evolutionary Algorithms Solve Complex Social Problems

How neuroevolution builds AI that adapts and improves without hand-coding, and what that means for building AI that serves society's hardest challenges.

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Olaf Witkowski
Olaf Witkowski
Int'l Society for Artificial Life

The Companionship Paradigm: Architecting Safe AI Societies in the Age of Impossible Alignment

A new framework for AI systems that coexist with human societies through cooperation rather than control, drawing on collective intelligence and artificial life research.

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Toby Walsh
Toby Walsh
UNSW / UNSW.ai

Masterclass by Toby Walsh

Author of "2062" and "Machines Behaving Badly," Toby Walsh brings one of AI's most recognised public voices. Full topic confirmed after registration.

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John C. Havens
John C. Havens
IEEE Planet Positive 2030

Masterclass by John C. Havens

Founding Executive Director of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of A/IS and author of Ethically Aligned Design. Topic confirmed after registration.

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Compliance

EU AI Act Compliance

The 2 August 2026 obligations are binding. Better Societies delivers done-for-you Annex IV documentation, risk management systems, and oversight policy in 6 weeks. Satisfaction guarantee included.

Best for: Founders, Compliance leads, and Risk teams building or deploying high-risk AI systems.

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AI Safety Accelerator

A structured program for founders and teams building AI safety solutions. Expert mentorship, a peer cohort, investor access, and a path from idea to market, with Summit speakers as faculty.

Best for: Founders and researchers building AI safety products or companies.

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