Talks and lectures
Public talks and lectures from leading researchers and practitioners working on AI safety, governance, and policy. Held twice a year.
Events
SASH convenes researchers, policymakers, and practitioners through conferences, workshops, paper clubs, public talks, and closed-door briefings.
Upcoming Events
See our upcoming events on our Luma event page here
Event Formats
Workshops
Hands-on sessions, paper clubs, and reading groups on technical and governance topics. Held every 1-2 months.
Closed-door briefings
Policy and technical briefings for government and institutional partners on AI safety and governance topics. Held 3-4 times a year.
Community socials
Informal gatherings for the AI safety and governance community, often timed around major events.
Past Events
Fireside chat on AI's impact on labour and the economy
Join economists Bharat Chandar and Deric Cheng for a fireside chat on how AI is reshaping jobs and the economy. Explore labour-market evidence, policy responses, and how society can share the benefits of advanced AI.
Women in AI Safety
Celebrate International Women's Day with women shaping AI safety across academia, government, and industry. Hear short talks, join a panel Q&A, and learn how more women can build meaningful careers in the field.
A Fireside Chat with BlueDot Impact
Learn how to contribute to AI safety with BlueDot Impact's Li-Lian Ang. Explore career transitions, defence-in-depth approaches to AI risk, and the roles Singapore and Southeast Asia can play, followed by Q&A.
Fireside Chat on AI Policy
Join AI policy researcher Saad Siddiqui for a fireside chat on policy research, implementation challenges, career pathways, and opportunities for international collaboration, followed by an open Q&A.
Office Hours with Joping from Apollo Research
Joping from Apollo Research—which works on reducing risks from dangerous AI capabilities like scheming behaviors—is hosting an informal office hours in Singapore to chat and discuss open roles.
AI-accelerated biological risk: Delving into Asia's challenges and emerging solutions
Join a virtual roundtable on AI-accelerated biological risk in Asia. Experts will examine urgent threats, regional governance challenges, promising interventions, and priorities for researchers and policymakers.
AI Governance in Singapore
Explore Singapore's AI safety and governance landscape through findings from Concordia AI's State of AI Safety in Singapore report, followed by a panel with experts from NUS, AI Singapore, IMDA, and Concordia AI.
Online AI Safety Talk - Beyond Human Wisdom: Can We Survive the Rise of AGI?
Can humanity navigate AGI with its current wisdom? Christopher Leong examines human biases, catastrophic risk, the case for wise AI advisers, and work aimed at helping powerful AI support better judgment.
AI Governance Talk - Effective Governance and State of AI Safety in Singapore
Discover how effective AI governance can move beyond compliance to make systems more trustworthy and sustainable. This talk examines why strong governance supports better outcomes for organizations and society.
AI Governance Talk - Truth, Trust, and Tech: Governing Generative AI for a Safer Digital Future
Explore how regulation, technical tools, and behavioral insights can counter misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation in the age of generative AI and build safer, more trusted digital environments.
AI Safety: Can incomplete preferences keep artificial agents shutdownable?
Oxford researcher Elliott Thornley explains the shutdown problem and a proposal to train agents with incomplete preferences so they never resist shutdown, supported by reinforcement-learning experiments.
International AI Governance: Key Challenges and Solutions
Explore CeSIA's International AI Governance Report and three pillars for action: institutional architecture, scientific foundations, and rules of the road. The session concludes with a Q&A on global coordination.
