AI Safety Day Sweden 2026

Sweden is strong at adopting AI, but it is lacking when it comes to safety efforts: there is no AI Security Institute (AISI), no established talent pipeline, and no regular forum for decision-makers and civil society in which to convene. Some initiatives exist, but few people know about them. We want to change this with Sweden's First AI Safety Day.

This event brings together organisations, policy makers, researchers, and curious individuals. Alongside the talks, there will be matchmaking: getting to know each other's work and finding ways to join in.

What we want to achieve

  • Connect organisations and give existing initiatives a stage

  • Match people with organisations and bring new co-founders together to start more

  • Share tested approaches to starting an AISI, building a talent pipeline, and launching an organisation

  • Give policymakers a direct way to meet the people already working on this

  • Launch an open letter supporting a Swedish AISI

Focus areas

  • Technical: strategic resilience, including continuity of access to foreign frontier models and compute, domestic fallback capabilities and Nordic cooperation

  • Governance: what a Swedish AISI should do, and how labour-market and welfare institutions can prepare for a range of AI outcomes

  • Talent pipeline: what careers exist in the field and how we could funnel Sweden's talent into AI safety careers

  • International collaboration: lessons from AISIs, and field-building organisations abroad

Organised by:

Premiss

Supported by:

  • Singapore AI Safety Hub

  • Global Policy Research Group

  • Simon Institute for Longterm Governance

  • RegleraAI.nu

  • PauseAI Sweden

  • AI Safety Sweden

Hosted by:

Emerge Lakefront

Program:

12:00 – Doors open & coffee

13:00–13:10 – Welcome Remarks

13:10–13:30 – Current AI Safety IncidentsTalk by Johan Falk

13:30–14:30 – International Collaboration: Comparing Approaches Around the WorldPanel discussion with Vivian Leung, Jonathan Salter, Henry Davidson and Bahadir Sirin

14:30–15:30 – Matchmaking & fika

15:30–16:15 – Where Humanity StandsTalk by Olle Häggström

16:15–17:00 – AI Governance: How should Sweden prepare for an AI future?Talk by Bahadir Sirin

17:00–17:45 – Talent Pipeline: Addressing risks from frontier models with your careerTalk by Ysaline Bourgine de Meder

17:45–18:30 – Technical AI Safety: Research on Eval AwarenessTalk by Axel Ahlqvist

18:30–20:00 – Networking

Event website: https://premiss.se/AISafetyDay2026

DetailsDate: Saturday 21 November 2026

Time: 12:00 - 12:00 (Doors open at 12 for networking & the event starts at 13)

Place: Emerge Lakefront, Herbert Widmans väg 5B, 128 64 Sköndal

Price: Free, fika included

Language: English

Registration: Please answer the short questions in the registration form. We use them for matchmaking.