1st Workshop on Critical AI Safety
This workshop aims to bring together scholars from different disciplines who are working to characterise, map, and critique the field of AI Safety and AI Existential Risk research.
Find more information about the workshop.
The workshop is funded by The Carlsberg Foundation.
Keynote speakers
- Adam Becker, Journalist and Author of More, Everything, Forever
- Shazeda Ahmed, University of California, Los Angeles
- Mollie Gleiberman
Call for papers
Submission deadline: 1 July, 2026.
| 09:15 |
Keynote I: Shazeda Ahmed, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 10:30 | Presentations I — Anthropomorphism & the Object of AI Safety: |
| 10:30 | Alexandru Mateescu, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: How AI Safety Defines Its Object of Inquiry |
| 10:55 | Mariana Lins Costa, State University of Ceará: Methodological Anthropomorphism in AI Safety Evaluations |
| 11:20 | Eugene Kim, University of Michigan: AI Safety as an Instrument of AI Hegemony |
| 12:00 |
Presentations II — Philosophy, Goals, and Critical AI Safety: |
| 12:00 | Hin-Yan Liu, University of Copenhagen: Triangulating the Construction of AI's Existential Risk |
| 12:25 | Asher Kessler, University of Manchester: Waiting For the Pause: Interruption, Acceleration and the Limits of (Critical) AI Safety |
| 12:50 | Eloise Soulier, University of Cambridge: Critical AI Safety: What is the role of philosophy? |
| 14:30 | Presentations III — AI Risks and Agency: |
| 14:30 | Sun Yizhou, Free University of Berlin: Cognitive Outsourcing: Generative Asymmetry, Material Drag, and Untraceability |
| 14:55 | Ilias Chalkidis, University of Copenhagen: Brainrot: Deskilling and Addiction are Overlooked AI Risks |
| 15:20 | Nina Rajcic, University of Copenhagen: Goal-Directedness is in the Eye of the Beholder |
| 16:00 |
Presentations IV — Power, Infrastructure, Political Economy: |
| 16:00 | Lukas Meier, Harvard Center for Ethics: ICE, Gaza, and Cambridge Analytica: The Hidden Story of Palantir |
| 16:25 | Santtu Räisänen, Aarhus University: Gatecrashers and Suspicions at the AI Safety Conference |
| 16:50 | Tomáš Filo, Charles University: Gaslighting the Future: How AGI Narratives Shape Politics of AI |
| 17:30 |
Keynote II — Adam Becker, Journalist and Author of More, Everything, Forever: Fighting the Rhetoric of Inevitability: Puncturing Transhumanist Eschatology and Sketching Better Futures |
| 09:15 | Keynote III — Mollie Gleiberman |
| 10:30 |
Presentations V — Epistemic Community & Governance |
| 10:30 | Meridian Monthy, University of Cambridge: Who, or What, Governs Our Future? Classification, Legitimacy Infrastructure, and the AI Safety Community |
| 10:55 | Uma E. Sarkar, University of Cambridge: The AI Safety Epistemic Community as a Governance Intermediary |
| 11:20 |
Luca Neuperti, University of Edinburgh: Mixed-methods analysis of the discursive framings of "AI" on LessWrong and the Alignment Forum |
| 12:00 |
Presentations VI — Technical Approaches & Tools |
| 12:00 | Emilie de Keulenaar, University of Copenhagen: Alignment Actors Site |
| 12:25 |
Yevhenii Osadchuk, University of Copenhagen: Relay: A Source-Grounded AI Platform for Exploring AI Ethics and Safety Research |