Charbel-Raphaël Ségerie
Charbel-Raphaël Ségerie is the Executive Director of CeSIA (Centre pour la Sécurité de l’IA, the French Center for AI Safety) — France’s leading AI safety organization. He is one of the most active AI safety institution-builders in continental Europe.
Roles
- Executive Director, CeSIA (Paris)
- EU AI Act Code of Practice Evaluator (General-Purpose AI)
- OECD AI Expert
- Initiator, Global Call for AI Red Lines (endorsed by 12 Nobel laureates, presented at the UN General Assembly and Security Council in September 2025)
- Head teacher, Turing Seminar on AGI Safety at ENS Paris-Saclay & ENS Ulm
- Creator of the first university-accredited course on general-purpose AI safety in the EU (2022–present)
Education and Outreach
Ségerie founded and designed the curriculum for ML4Good — an EU Commission-funded AI safety bootcamp programme that has been replicated 20+ times across Europe, Latin America, and beyond, with a 98% participant recommendation rate. He teaches an AI safety course at the École Normale Supérieure.
He is co-author with Markov Grey of the AI Safety Atlas (ai-safety-atlas.com) — an 8-chapter, ~15-hour textbook covering AI safety from foundations to cutting-edge research. The Atlas is the curriculum spine for CeSIA’s university-accredited course and is freely available online.
Research
Technical research spans RLHF theory, mechanistic interpretability, and safe-by-design approaches.
Connection to This Wiki
- Lead of CeSIA, the French counterpart to the Belgian FLI / KU Leuven cluster.
- Initiator of the AI Red Lines global call referenced in ai-safety as a 2025 governance milestone.
- Bridge between EffiSciences (the student-origin org behind ML4Good) and frontier EU AI policy.
Related Pages
- cesia
- effisciences
- future-of-life-institute
- eu-ai-act
- ai-safety
- ai-governance
- ai-safety
- summary-ai-xrisk-belgium-europe
- interpretability
- ku-leuven-chair-ethics-ai
- rlhf
- markov-grey
- ai-safety-atlas-textbook
- read-the-textbook-ai-safety-atlas
- ai-red-lines