EPFL Safe AI Lausanne

Building a safer future through responsible AI development and research. We are a community of students, researchers, and professionals at EPFL working towards ensuring artificial intelligence systems are developed safely and beneficially.

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Our Mission

We believe that as AI systems become more powerful, ensuring their safety and alignment with human values becomes increasingly critical. Our goal is to foster research, education, and community engagement around AI safety at EPFL and beyond.

📚 Reading Group

We ran successful reading group sessions in Fall 2024 and are planning future sessions based on community interest. Join our interest list to be notified when we restart!

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🧠 Research & Discussion

We organize workshops, seminars, and conduct independent research to help members understand the technical foundations of AI safety research.

🤝 Community

Connect with like-minded individuals, collaborate on projects, and contribute to the growing AI safety research community at EPFL.

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🔬 Hands-on Projects

Work on practical AI safety research projects, from interpretability studies to robustness evaluations and alignment techniques.

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Recent Highlights

OS-Harm

Authors: Thomas Kuntz, Agatha Duzan

Lab: Theory of Machine Learning Laboratory (TML)

Created a harmful capabilities benchmark for agents. Got accepted as a spotlight paper at NeurIPS 2025

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Watermarking for LLMs

Authors: Joshua Cohen-Dumani

Lab: Natural Language Processing Lab (NLP)

This project explored synthetic text detection in open-source language models by studying whether watermarking patter...

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Upcoming Events

March 05, 2026 • 18:30
SAIL Spring 2026 Kickoff 🚀

Join us for the official kickoff of our Spring 2026 activities! Meet the team, learn about upcoming projects and opportunities, and connect with fellow AI safety enthusiasts.

Location: Room CE 1 104, EPFL

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Regular Meetings

Friday

Time: 12:00-13:00

Location: BC Cafeteria

Weekly informal meetups