Swiss AI Safety Days

Co-founder, Principles of Intelligence

Runs Safeguarded AI, a roughly £60M ARIA programme building a mathematical assurance toolkit that lets fleets of AI agents produce formally verified artefacts at speed and scale, from software to microelectronics to cyber-physical control systems. Co-author of Gradual Disempowerment, and previously a Research Manager at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute.

Dr. Adrian Hutter leads the Gemini safety post-training team at Google DeepMind. His current research centers on instilling robust values in AI models across diverse environments. He has a background in theoretical quantum physics and has been interested in how to ensure the development of AGI is broadly beneficial for over a decade.

King's College London · The Alan Turing Institute

His work focuses on AI safety and online harms, with expertise in countering harmful manipulation, election interference, counterterrorism and CBRN. A Senior Advisor to the Online Harms Foundation, he advises governments, law enforcement and AI labs on emerging technologies and national security threats. Featured in The New York Times and The Financial Times.

Associate Professor, University of Oxford · joining UCL in October 2026

Founded Witt Lab to study multi-agent security: what becomes of security when the parties to a system are learned agents that reason, communicate and pursue goals. Holds an EPSRC Open Fellowship, a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship and a Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellowship. DPhil from Oxford on deep multi-agent reinforcement learning.

10 Downing Street Innovation Fellow

An AI researcher focused on ensuring AI benefits society. His work spans frontier AI evaluation at the UK AI Security Institute, and public-sector innovation across government, combining technical research with practical policy impact. Also an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London, where he teaches deep learning.

Co-founder, AI Safety Lab, KU Leuven

Contributed to shaping the general-purpose AI and systemic risk provisions of the EU AI Act. A PhD researcher at KU Leuven, a member of Estonia's government AI advisory board under the Prime Minister, and co-author of The AI Endgame (Wiley, forthcoming). Also leads the EU AI Act Newsletter, which has over 50,000 subscribers.

Head of the Data Science and AI Lab (dlab)

Works at the intersection of AI, natural language processing and computational social science, with a focus on building AI that is safe for humanity. Previously a Visiting Researcher with the AI Frontiers group at Microsoft Research, and a recipient of the ICWSM Adamic-Glance Distinguished Young Researcher Award and an SNSF Starting Grant.

Formerly AI Safety Research Lead, Palisade Research

Works on an automated red-teaming platform for LLMs and AI agents at Check Point AI Security. Previously led work on specification gaming, cybersecurity agents and malicious fine-tuning at Palisade Research, and collaborated with FAR.AI on testing LLM robustness against multi-stage adversarial attack pipelines. Holds a PhD in mathematics.

Organiser, AI Governance Forum

Leads a Swiss think tank dedicated to governance “of” and “via” AI, a research fellow organization under IASEAI. Specialized in risk management, she works on safety-by-design infrastructure and the governance of agentic AI, has reviewed research projects for the EU Commission since 2018, and holds a postdoctoral fellowship from MIT.

Works on SecureBio's AI team, which focuses on understanding and reducing catastrophic biological risks posed by emerging artificial intelligence, leading targeted evaluations designed to assess model safeguards and identify high-risk capabilities. PhD in Virology from Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, where she studied neuroinvasive mechanisms of high-containment viruses.

Lead, AI Safety and Alignment Group, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

A member of the EU AI Scientific Panel and a chapter lead for the International AI Safety Report 2026, chaired by Yoshua Bengio, and a founding advisor at Exponential Security Labs. Has taken part in red-teaming efforts for OpenAI and Anthropic models, and co-authored benchmarks used by OpenAI, DeepMind, Meta, xAI and Anthropic. PhD in machine learning from EPFL.

Founder, EuroSafeAI

Also a Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, a member of the EU AI Scientific Panel, a CIFAR AI Chair and faculty at the Vector Institute. Her research focuses on Causal Reasoning with LLMs, and AI Safety in Multi-Agent LLMs. Author of over 100 papers, and a recipient of the ELLIS PhD Award and three Rising Star awards.

Leads a nonprofit R&D lab based in London which provides tools and analysis that help researchers measure the safety of advanced AI.

His remit covers research management and recruiting. Research interests include AI-driven systemic risks to the financial system and frontier model risk management. Previously managed large-scale product, engineering and data teams in tech companies. Holds a DPhil in theoretical physics from Oxford.

Leads the team's research and consulting work on the regulation and governance of general-purpose and frontier AI under the EU AI Act. Previously led the European AI Governance team at a nonprofit, and before that spent 15 years as an English barrister and Hong Kong solicitor litigating cross-border commercial fraud in London, Grand Cayman, Guernsey and Hong Kong.

Co-founded a nonprofit institute in Nuremberg investigating how human control of advanced AI could fail and where safeguards could prevent that failure. His research connects threat modelling, safety evaluations and evidence synthesis, focusing on networks of AI agents and pathways to loss of control. Also works on deceptive behaviour and mechanistic interpretability.

Leads research on misalignment and deception in AI agents: how autonomous systems end up pursuing goals nobody intended, how to detect it, and how to fix it. Apollo is an AGI safety research organization building coding agent security products and working with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and others on frontier safety, focused on scheming, control and evaluations.

Public Speaker · École Polytechnique

Increasingly focused on AI safety. His YouTube channel Chez Anatole has 40k+ subscribers and 2.4M+ views. Has given 90+ talks across Europe, hosted the International Physics Olympiad, and won the French Debating Association championship at the French National Assembly with École Polytechnique.

PhD Student, ETH Zurich

Researches AI safety, with a focus on developing a rigorous science of misalignment. Alongside his doctorate, he has several years of experience in field-building and AI safety career advising.

Works on making open-weight models safer. A physicist by training, with a master's in Lisbon and a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Sapienza University of Rome, he joined EleutherAI's interpretability team to work on automated interpretability and sparse autoencoders, then moved to data attribution: how specific training data shapes what a model does.

Tobias Häberli directs Pivotal Research, which runs AI safety and biodefense research fellowships in London.

A lawyer holding an LL.M. in technology law from the University of Edinburgh. He participates in the European standardisation groups developing harmonised standards for the EU AI Act (JTC 21) and in the ISO AI committee (SC 42), where he focuses on Frontier AI best practices. Also an external lecturer at Esade, teaching the economics of the AI supply chain.

Founder and Head, XplaiNLP group (JGU Mainz & TU Berlin)

Her research advances explainable, robust, and trustworthy NLP that enables informed human-AI collaboration in high-risk domains, from medical decision support to tools that help journalists and fact-checkers trace disinformation and detect foreign information manipulation. She has raised over €6.5 million in third-party funding and is a GI Junior Fellow.