We are a non-profit organization building a community to advance AI safety in Italy.
President
Elisabetta is a co-founding collaborator of AI Safety for Italy and a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Milano, where her research focuses on mechanistic interpretability. Her work spans refusal behaviour, instruction-following mechanisms, training dynamics, and the encoding of aesthetic concepts, using methods such as activation patching, steering, probing, and complex network modeling.
Communications & partnerships
Carola is a co-founder of AI Safety for Italy, contributing to the development of the initiative in external communication, community strategy, and networking. Her background is in physics, and she currently works as a data scientist. Her involvement in AI safety includes participation in the ML4Good bootcamp and completion of the AI Alignment course by BlueDot Impact.
Technical infrastructure
Francesco is a co-founder of AI Safety for Italy and a PhD student at the University of Trieste and Area Science Park, where he studies the mechanistic interpretability of LLMs and VLMs. During his PhD, he spent some time as a research intern in the AI Safety and Alignment group at the ELLIS Institute in Tübingen. Within AI Safety for Italy he looks after the technical infrastructure, from the website to the internal tools and the Discord server, and contributes to the mentorship program.
Mentorship program
Lorenzo is a co-founder of AI Safety for Italy and a postdoctoral researcher at Area Science Park (Trieste). His research focuses on the interpretability of multimodal foundation models and representation alignment. He previously obtained a PhD in AI at the University of Trieste, supervised by Luca Bortolussi, with a research visit in Francesco Locatello’s Causal Learning and AI lab at IST Austria.
Governance & fundraising
Valeriia is part of the organizing group of AI Safety for Italy, contributing to the coordination and development of the initiative across governance, finance, communications, and operational support. Her background is primarily in operations, project coordination, stakeholder relationship development, and fundraising across international initiatives and campaigns. She has experience supporting organizational processes, cross-functional coordination, and the development of operational infrastructure. Her recent involvement in AI safety includes participation in initiatives such as AI Safety Camp, Apart Research, and the Corda Democracy Fellowship.
Governance & fundraising
Francesco works on the governance and fundraising of AI Safety for Italy.
Seminars
Edoardo coordinates the seminars of AI Safety for Italy. He is a PhD student at the University of Trento.
Community & education
Riccardo coordinates the community and the educational activities of AI Safety for Italy. He is a PhD student at Örebro University.
Runs the mentorship program: matches newcomers with experienced members and supports each cohort.
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Organises meetups, seminars and the city groups across Italy.
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Newsletter, social media, press and the public voice of the organisation.
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Legal structure, finances, grants and relationships with funders.
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Courses, reading groups and learning materials on AI safety.
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The website, internal tools and the Discord server.
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