Let's make sure that AI development happens safely.
Zurich AI Safety unites academic researchers, industry experts, and future leaders to address the critical risks posed by AI, with the goal of ensuring advanced systems are developed safely.
Get InvolvedLet's make sure that AI development happens safely.
Zurich AI Safety unites academic researchers, industry experts, and future leaders to address the critical risks posed by AI, with the goal of ensuring advanced systems are developed safely.
Get InvolvedLet's make sure that AI development happens safely.
Zurich AI Safety unites academic researchers, industry experts, and future leaders to address the critical risks posed by AI, with the goal of ensuring advanced systems are developed safely.
Get InvolvedZurich AI Safety brings people into the field and connects them to real opportunities in Zurich and beyond. We are a community where AI risk gets discussed openly while building the local infrastructure that turns curiosity into sustained contribution.
1. AI Futures
AI Futures is a 6-part series that works through that question in the open – current systems, how fast they are improving, what could go wrong, and who decides.
2. Open Meetups
One evening a month at or in front of our PEAKS coworking office, with no programme and no agenda beyond the people who turn up.
Open Meetups
One evening a month at or in front of our PEAKS coworking office, with no programme and no agenda beyond the people who turn up.
→Learn moreAI Futures
AI Futures is a 6-part series that works through that question in the open – current systems, how fast they are improving, what could go wrong, and who decides.
→Learn moreThemed Events
A weekly discussion about current news, deep dives into specific AI safety topics, or research paper discussions - open to beginners and experts alike.
→Learn moreAI Safety Fundamentals
A six-week course introducing the technical foundations of AI safety research.
→Learn moreTake your first step to a future in AI safety.
Ready to help shape a secure, beneficial future with advanced AI? Join one of our programs or be part of our events. We equip you with the technical skills and policy frameworks needed to ensure frontier AI remains safe.
1. AI Futures
AI Futures is a 6-part series that works through that question in the open – current systems, how fast they are improving, what could go wrong, and who decides.
Cost: Free
Location: ETH Zurich
2. Open Meetups
One evening a month at or in front of our PEAKS coworking office, with no programme and no agenda beyond the people who turn up.
Cost: Free
Location: Peaks Coworking Space
3. AI Safety Fundamentals
A six-week course introducing the technical foundations of AI safety research.
Cost: Free
Location: ETH Zurich
4. Themed Events
A weekly discussion about current news, deep dives into specific AI safety topics, or research paper discussions - open to beginners and experts alike.
Cost: Free
Location: ETH Zurich
Zurich is home to ETH Zurich and its leading AI research, frontier AI labs and innovation, making it one of the best-connected places in Europe to work on AI safety.
A technical hub with local world-class talent closely connected to the policy and governance work happening in Bern and Geneva.
Sources: Stanford AI Index 2026 (researchers and inventors per capita, Switzerland) · Sequoia Atlas (AI talent density, Zurich) · QS World University Rankings 2026
Voices from the ecosystem. Hear directly from our community. Why they joined, and what they're working on.
Making AI safe may be one of the most important challenges of this century, with the potential to unlock unprecedented progress for humanity.
The same speed that makes AI powerful makes safety urgent. I joined Zurich AI Safety to close that gap - building an ecosystem around the talent in Zurich.
Never has Edward O. Wilson’s diagnosis rung truer than on the cusp of the AI era: “We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.” Zurich AI Safety works on closing that gap.
From the AI Safety Fundamentals Course with Lukas Fluri in 2022, through organizing hikes and hosting talks, to leading ZAIS’s policy work.
I joined ZAIS as a volunteer organizer in mid-2025, where we’ve been able to host an international AI safety conference in Zurich, and have been part of its amazing community since.
A camera extends memory, not the living of it. Let AI replace our thinking instead of extending it, and we lose the habit of thinking for ourselves, a loss too costly to undo. That’s why AI safety matters to me.
Excited to chat about mathematics and theoretical computer science for AI Safety! Passionate about analytic philosophy and digital sovereignty on the side.
It is our only choice to ensure AI development goes well!
What's coming up.
Join our events to get in touch with the community and to learn and discuss current news and developments in AI safety.
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