Lauri AarnioSenior Communications Manager
Think tank · Research orgs · Paris, France · Est. 2024
The Centre pour la Sécurité de l’IA (CeSIA) is a Paris-based, non-profit (association loi 1901) think-tank and policy research organization focused on preventing and mitigating major AI risks in France and Europe. It frames its mission around combining (1) policy analysis and public-policy recommendations for institutions, (2) education and public-facing awareness-building, and (3) technical AI safety research and engineering support in service of governance.
Operationally, CeSIA positions itself as an interlocutor for European and French decision-makers and emphasizes work products that connect safety research to governance needs—such as evaluation/benchmarking and enforcement-oriented policy arguments. A distinctive part of CeSIA’s approach is that it publishes both technical and governance-focused outputs: it runs research and evaluation-oriented initiatives (e.g., the BELLS line of work for supervision/guardrails benchmarking) and simultaneously produces policy communications (including press releases and policy analyses), plus education assets such as its open AI safety textbook (“AI Safety Atlas”).
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CeSIA publishes an analysis addressing common skeptical arguments about catastrophic risks from advanced AI, with counterevidence.
Cyberdefence: governments should set the rules, AI companies should foot the billCeSIA argues for government-set rules and calls for AI companies to cover associated costs for cyberdefense.
CeSIA joins UNESCO’s Global CSO and Academic Network on AI Ethics and PolicyCeSIA announces joining UNESCO’s Global CSO and Academic Network on AI Ethics and Policy.
CeSIA joins the Hiroshima AI Process Partners Community, and takes part in its next Friends Group meetingCeSIA announces joining the Hiroshima AI Process Partners Community and participating in the next “Friends Group” meeting.
White Paper in collaboration with the Paris Peace Forum to accelerate cybersecurity and AI safetyCeSIA publishes a white paper with the Paris Peace Forum, describing a consultation process across researchers and funders in multiple countries and focusing on cybersecurity and AI safety.
The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident: a detailed timeline and what it meansCeSIA publishes a timeline and analysis of the OpenAI agents / Hugging Face incident and implications for risk and governance.