CDAC Network joins International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI)
CDAC Network has become an official Affiliate of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI). Our Executive Director, Helen McElhinney, has been appointed to its inaugural Council, sitting on the Community Committee and chairing a Working Group on transparency the ‘right to know’.
About IASEAI
IASEAI was founded in the wake of the landmark AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in November 2023. As momentum towards cooperative AI governance stalled, a steering committee chaired by AI pioneer Stuart Russell was convened in May 2024 to create a global civil-society voice for safe and ethical AI.
The organisation was formally incorporated as a nonprofit in November 2024. Its inaugural conference, held at OECD Headquarters in Paris in February 2025 drew thousands of participants, including from CDAC, and featured talks from Nobel and Turing Award winners.
Today, IASEAI has grown to more than 2,000 members from across the world and affiliate organisations spanning industry, academia, civil society and policy spheres. It pursues a dual strategy: advancing the technical foundations of provably safe and ethical AI, while pushing for enforceable governance frameworks that go beyond industry self-regulation.
CDAC Network as an Affiliate
As an IASEAI Affiliate, the CDAC Network joins a growing network of mission-aligned organisations at the forefront of AI safety, ethics and governance. Affiliation connects us to a worldwide community of researchers, policymakers and civil society actors working toward the same goal: AI that is safe, ethical and beneficial to humanity.
CDAC’s Executive Director appointed to the IASEAI Council
Helen McElhinney, Executive Director of CDAC Network and founding architect of SAFE AI, has been appointed as a member of the IASEAI Council – the body responsible for developing the organisation's policies and providing strategic guidance across its four pillars: Community, Research, Policy and Education.
Helen serves on the Community Committee alongside a distinguished cohort of fellow members, including Sasha Luccioni and Margaret Mitchell (Hugging Face), Gaia Marcus (Ada Lovelace Institute), Francesca Rossi (IBM AI Ethics), Tara Steele (Safe AI for Children Alliance), and others working at the cutting edge of AI and society.
She will also chair a Working Group on transparency and people’s right to know when AI systems are shaping decisions about them – a fundamental underpinning of the forthcoming SAFE AI Framework.