AI Safety & Security Summit: Building a Trustworthy AI Future

Many popular AI safety initiatives and media headlines are focused on future existential risks of AI, while current AI and digital threats are growing exponentially and need to be addressed urgently. These threats include emotional manipulation, deepfake impersonation, fraud, spam, and other forms of deceptive behaviors.

AI has significant consequences for vulnerable individuals as well as their families, communities, and society overall. A survey in February 2025 found that over half of those surveyed reported that they or someone they know has been approached by an AI chatbot posing as a real person on a dating platform or social media. Majority believe it’s possible for people to develop romantic feelings for an AI chatbot, which raises further concerns about emotional vulnerability and susceptibility to scams.[1]

AI-facilitated gender-based violence specifically targets women and girls through emotional manipulation, sextortion, and other forms of image and video abuse[2]. A report on the threats landscape in 2019 found that a majority of deepfakes were non-consensual sexual deepfakes, and of those, 99% were of women[3].  

CCDH (Center for Countering Digital Hate) researchers carried out a large-scale safety test on ChatGPT, one of the world’s most popular AI chatbots. Their findings were disturbing as within minutes of simple interactions, the system produced instructions for teenagers related to self-harm, suicide planning, disordered eating, and substance abuse.[4]

Large corporations are not immune either as increased AI adoption exposes their employees and customers to additional security risks and threats. A study analyzing tens of thousands of prompts for ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity found that 8.5% of employee prompts into Generative AI include sensitive data.[5] Enterprises and governments are struggling to secure their systems against these and other growing number of AI-enabled security breaches.

Join WAIE+ in Marseille, France on June 15 & 16 for our AI & Safety summit, where we will bring together multi-disciplinary experts from public, private, and government sectors, community organizers, civil society leaders, technology developers, and digital safety leader to discuss concrete solutions for an inclusive and trustworthy AI future built on a solid foundation of safety, security, and shared prosperity.

REGISTRATION DETAILS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY.

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[1] https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/business-of-life/mcafee-india-survey-romance-dating-scam-ai-chatbots-11739599195605.html

[2] https://www.unfpa.org/making-all-spaces-safe-global-programme-address-technology-facilitated-gender-based-violence

[3] https://www.cigionline.org/articles/women-not-politicians-are-targeted-most-often-deepfake-videos/

[4] https://counterhate.com/research/fake-friend-chatgpt/

[5] https://www.harmonic.security/resources/from-payrolls-to-patents-the-spectrum-of-data-leaked-into-genai