Past Events

Alignment Series and Specialized Workshops

FAR.AI hosts and delivers a suite of events on safe and beneficial AI.

Seoul Alignment Workshop 2026

Alignment Workshop

Taking place in Seoul on Monday, July 6, this workshop is part of the ongoing Alignment Workshop series, following prior gatherings in San Diego, Singapore, Vienna, New Orleans, San Francisco, and London. Bringing together global leaders in academia and industry, our goal is to deepen our collective understanding of the potential risks from Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and collaboratively explore effective strategies for mitigating these risks.

Seoul, South Korea

July 6, 2026
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Workshop on Assurance and Verification of AI Development (AViD)

Specialized Workshops

In partnership with the Center for AI Safety, FAR.AI convened a workshop on infrastructure for secure and verifiable AI, colocated with IEEE S&P in San Francisco on May 17, 2026. We brought together researchers, builders, and funders across ML, hardware security, systems, cryptography, and computer security to identify the most promising technical approaches and spark concrete collaborations.

San Francisco

May 17, 2026
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Berkeley ControlConf 2026

Specialized Workshops

ControlConf is a conference dedicated to the emerging field of AI control: the study of techniques that mitigate security risks from AI even if the AI itself is trying to subvert them.

Berkeley, California

April 18, 2026
April 19, 2026
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Technical Innovations for AI Policy (TIAP) Conference 2026

Specialized Workshops

FAR.AI, in collaboration with leading think tanks, organized the second annual Technical Innovations in AI Policy Conference to connect policymakers with leading AI technical experts.

Washington, DC

March 30, 2026
March 31, 2026
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London Alignment Workshop

Alignment Workshop

Taking place in London on Monday, March 2 and Tuesday, March 3, 2026, the Alignment Workshop brought researchers and leaders from around the world together to debate and discuss current issues in AI safety.

London, United Kingdom

March 2, 2026
March 3, 2026
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San Diego Alignment Workshop

Alignment Workshop

Held just before NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego, California, the Alignment Workshop will brought researchers and leaders from around the world together to debate and discuss current issues in AI safety.

San Diego, California

December 1, 2025
December 2, 2025
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Journalism Workshop: AGI Impacts & Governance

Specialized Workshops

FAR.AI, in collaboration with the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, organized an inaugural workshop to connect journalists with leading AI experts.

Washington, DC

November 17, 2025
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Technical Innovations for AI Policy

Specialized Workshops

FAR.AI, in collaboration with FAI, CNAS and RAND, is organizing the inaugural Technical Innovations for AI Policy Conference.

Washington, DC

May 30, 2025
June 1, 2025
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Singapore Alignment Workshop

Alignment Workshop

Held around ICLR 2025 in Singapore, the Singapore Alignment Workshop will bring together researchers and leaders from around the world together to debate and discuss current issues in AI safety.

Singapore

April 23, 2025
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London ControlConf 2025

Specialized Workshops

ControlConf is a conference dedicated to the emerging field of AI control: the study of techniques that mitigate security risks from AI even if the AI itself is trying to subvert them.

Marylebone, London

March 27, 2025
March 28, 2025
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Paris AI Security Forum 2025

Specialized Workshops

The Paris AI Security Forum brought together experts in AI development, cybersecurity, and policy to dramatically accelerate the security of powerful AI models, aiming to prevent potential catastrophes while fast-tracking scientific and economic breakthroughs.

Paris, France

February 10, 2025
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Bay Area Alignment Workshop

Alignment Workshop

The Bay Area Alignment Workshop was held 24-25 Oct 2024, at Chaminade in Santa Cruz, featuring Anca Dragan on Optimised Misalignment. Participants additionally explored topics such as threat models, safety cases, monitoring and assurance, interpretability, robustness, and oversight.

Santa Cruz, CA

October 24, 2024
October 25, 2024
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Vienna Alignment Workshop

Alignment Workshop

Held around ICML 2024, the Vienna Alignment Workshop brought together researchers and leaders from around the world together to debate and discuss current issues in AI safety, including topics within Guaranteed Safe AI & Robustness, Interpretability, and Governance & Evaluations.

Vienna, Austria

July 21, 2024
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Guaranteed Safe AI Workshop

Specialized Workshops

We held a workshop bringing together a set of leading AI scientists who had independently converged on a family of approaches which shared a central ambition of developing quantitative safety guarantees for AI systems, resulting in a position paper documenting the key principles of "Guaranteed Safe AI" agendas.

Berkeley, California

April 19, 2024
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FAR Seminar

FAR Seminar

The FAR.AI Seminar is a weekly event series hosted at FAR.Labs and streamed remotely, featuring presentations from prominent members of the AI safety community.

Berkeley, CA

January 1, 2024
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New Orleans Alignment Workshop

Alignment Workshop

Top ML researchers from industry and academia convened for a second Alignment Workshop in New Orleans in December 2023, just before NeurIPS 2023, to debate and discuss current issues in AI safety, including AI Oversight, Interpretability, Robustness and Generalization, and Governance.

New Orleans, LA

December 10, 2023
December 11, 2023
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San Francisco Alignment Workshop

Alignment Workshop

The inaugural Alignment Workshop was held 27–28 February 2023 in San Francisco, co-organized by researchers from top industry AI labs and universities, and was attended by 80 of the world’s leading machine learning researchers.

San Francisco, CA

February 27, 2023
February 28, 2023
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Testimonials

What people say

The Alignment Workshop is becoming my go-to event in alignment. Huge thanks to FAR.AI for putting it together!

Anca Dragan

Director, AI Safety and Alignment, Google DeepMind; Associate Professor, UC Berkeley

Organization

The Alignment Workshop was the most productive academic event per unit of time that I've been to.

 Brad Knox

Research Associate Professor, UT Austin

Organization

FAR.AI plays a key role in shaping a future where AI serves humanity’s collective interests. Their conferences, conversations and community support coordinated global action on AI safety research—a critical step to prevent AI from posing unacceptable risks to humanity.

Yoshua Bengio

2018 Turing Award Recipient; Director, MILA; Professor, University of Montreal

Organization

Our Events Portfolio

Three formats. One mission.

Alignment Workshop

Worldwide

The leading event for AI alignment research — bringing together researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders to address the most pressing risks from advanced AI.

FAR.AI Seminar

Berkeley

Weekly presentations from leading researchers in trustworthy and secure AI, hosted at FAR.Labs and streamed remotely.

Specialized Workshops

Worldwide

Deep dives into specific challenges in AI safety, security, and governance — bringing together experts for focused research progress and coordination.

Our Impact

By convening varied perspectives and fostering a collaborative environment, FAR.AI’s events facilitate innovative solutions to address the most pressing risks from advanced AI. Together, we coordinate our efforts, advance research, and shape a future where advanced AI systems are trustworthy and secure

Uniting

We bring together experts from industry, academia, government, and nonprofits to create spaces where stakeholders can collaborate, exchange ideas and form lasting connections.

Advancing

Our events advance the field by sharing early-stage results, amplifying promising research and making it accessible.

Shaping

We help shape the future of trustworthy & secure AI, informing policy and guiding research priorities through our focused workshops, international dialogues and technical seminars.

Research

Our research explores a portfolio of high-potential agendas.

Events

Our events bring together global leaders in AI.

Programs

Our programs build the field of trustworthy and secure AI