Safe Ai Forum

What Safe Ai Forum does

Safe AI Forum (SAIF) is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that drives international coordination to mitigate extreme AI risks. Founded in 2023 and spun out from FAR.AI's fiscal sponsorship into independent status on May 2, 2025, the organization is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, with a remote team of 12 based across the UK and North America. SAIF's mission is to foster responsible AI governance through shared understanding and collaboration among key global actors.

The organization's core program is the International Dialogues on AI Safety (IDAIS), a flagship event series convening senior computer scientists and AI governance experts from multiple jurisdictions. Three convenings have been held—in Oxford (2023), Beijing (2023/2024), and Venice (2024)—attracting global press coverage from the Financial Times and New York Times. Beyond events, SAIF conducts research on AI governance, publishes policy guides and primers (distributed in both English and Chinese via a WeChat channel), provides advisory services to aligned non-profits, and runs workshops on key AI safety topics. Its primary segments are scientists and AI researchers, policy makers, AI companies and organizations, philanthropic funders, and aligned non-profits.

SAIF operates as a non-profit funded through charitable donations and grants from aligned philanthropists and organizations; it has no disclosed commercial revenue stream. GTM is event-driven: large convenings generate earned media, which feeds research publication dissemination, which in turn supports advisory engagements with mission-aligned organizations. A 2025 partnership with Gov.AI and the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative produced a co-authored report on promising topics for US-China dialogues, institutionalizing its cross-jurisdictional convener role.

Name

Safe Ai Forum

Legal name

Safe Artificial Intelligence Forum Institute

Website

https://saif.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Safe AI Forum is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit that drives international coordination to mitigate extreme AI risks through its flagship International Dialogues on AI Safety (IDAIS) convenings, AI governance research, and advisory services, serving scientists, policymakers, and frontier AI organizations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Safety Governance Research

akta.pro primary industry

Responsible AI, AI Governance & Compliance Services (BPAEAHAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Regulatory Readiness & Audit Automation (e.g., EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001) (HDAAAMAE), Safety & Alignment Evaluation (red-teaming, harmful capability testing) (HDAAAMAL)

Keywords

• AI safety governance
• International policy research
• Nonprofit convening services
• AI risk coordination
• AI alignment research

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn Park

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

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B2B

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Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: As a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Safe AI Forum operates primarily through charitable donations and grants from aligned philanthropists and organizations. The organization transitioned to independent non-profit status on May 2nd, 2025, ending fiscal sponsorship with FAR.AI.

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Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Safe AI Forum (SAIF) is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that convenes international scientists through its flagship International Dialogues on AI Safety (IDAIS) event series, held in Oxford, Beijing, and Venice. The organization conducts governance research on AI safety, produces policy guides and primers on AI alignment, deception, and US-China cooperation, and provides advisory services to aligned non-profits working to reduce extreme AI risks.

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Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• International Dialogues on AI Safety (IDAIS): Flagship event series bringing together scientists from around the world to tackle extreme risks from AI. Three convenings held in Oxford, Beijing, and Venice.

Products and services

• International Dialogues on AI Safety (IDAIS)
• AI Governance Research Publications
• Advisory Services for Aligned Non-Profits
• AI Safety Workshops and Working Groups

Quantifiable outcome

• Three successful IDAIS convenings held in Oxford, Beijing, and Venice with global press coverage
• +2 more outcomes

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Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Gov.AIminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 March 2025Collaborative research partner on the 'Promising Topics for US-China Dialogues on AI Safety and Governance' report. Gov.AI contributed authors to the research paper alongside SAIF researchers.
• Oxford Martin AI Governance InitiativeminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 March 2025Collaborative research partner on the 'Promising Topics for US-China Dialogues on AI Safety and Governance' report. The Oxford Martin School contributed authors to the research paper.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• RAND Corporation: A large policy research organization producing analysis on AI safety, autonomous systems, and great-power technology competition. Comparable to SAIF in policy research methodology and government-adjacent audience, but RAND is a much larger, defense-oriented, multi-topic research institution.
• Center for a New American Security (CNAS): A bipartisan national security and defense policy research organization with active work on AI competition, export controls, and US-China technology policy. Comparable to SAIF in producing international AI policy analysis, though CNAS is US-focused and frames AI primarily through a national security lens.
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: A major international affairs think tank with established programs on AI governance and US-China technology competition. Comparable to SAIF in international policy research and convening capacity, but operates as a much broader general-purpose foreign policy institution rather than AI-focused.

Direct peers

• AI Now Institute: A research institute producing policy research on AI's social implications. Comparable in research-and-policy output profile to SAIF, but AI Now focuses on near-term accountability, bias, and governance of deployed AI rather than international cooperation on frontier risks.
• FAR.AI: An AI safety research non-profit that previously served as SAIF's fiscal sponsor until May 2025. Highly comparable mission around AI risk reduction; differs in that FAR.AI emphasizes technical alignment research while SAIF focuses on international governance and convening.
• GovAI: A research and advisory organization focused on AI governance, particularly the governance of advanced AI. A confirmed research collaboration partner of SAIF, with overlapping outputs on policy recommendations and frontier AI risk — making it the closest functional peer in governance research scope.
• Partnership on AI: A multi-stakeholder non-profit convening industry, academia, and civil society on AI best practices. Comparable to SAIF as both produce policy-relevant outputs and convene diverse stakeholders, though Partnership on AI is industry-funded and oriented toward responsible AI practices broadly rather than extreme risk governance.
• Future of Life Institute (FLI): A multi-cause non-profit that campaigns for AI governance and has historically convened high-profile letters and policy advocacy. Comparable to SAIF in mission and policy output, but FLI operates more as an advocacy and grant-making organization while SAIF focuses on cross-jurisdictional scientist convening and bilingual research.
• Center for AI Safety (CAIS): A non-profit research organization focused on reducing societal-scale risks from advanced AI. Directly comparable to SAIF as both operate in the AI safety governance space, produce research and policy recommendations, and target extreme/catastrophic AI risk reduction — though CAIS is more US-centric while SAIF emphasizes international US-China convening.

Emerging players

• MIRI (Machine Intelligence Research Institute): A long-standing AI safety research organization focused on technical alignment of advanced AI. Comparable to SAIF in mission around extreme AI risk, but MIRI's work is more technical/mathematical while SAIF's is more governance- and convening-oriented; both compete for the same aligned donor base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles5 records

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